Word: maelstroms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little progress. Heedless of the damage they were doing to South Korea's frail democracy, politicians selfishly fought for personal gain. Seoul's irresponsible newspapers exulted in their new freedom by jabbing at Premier Chang on every issue. President Posun Yun, supposedly a figurehead outside the political maelstrom, sniped openly at the struggling Premier...
After graduation, Unruh barged into the maelstrom of Southern California politics, soon made a name for himself as a tough, liberal Democrat with a talent for back room profanity. In 1954 he was elected to the assembly. Eying the swarm of free-spending Sacramento lobbyists, Unruh decided that they could be put to systematic practical use. He became a one-man collection agency, spreading the lobbyists' largesse among deserving Democrats for their campaign chests. To cries that such practice is unethical, Unruh simply snorts: "If you can't take what the lobbyists offer and still vote against them...
...little time on class work, it nonetheless was perhaps the most rewarding experience I had in college. I have always felt that it gave me what I most needed at the point in my development, and that without it I would have been pretty lost in the great maelstrom that is Harvard." His son Charles is presently a freshman football manager...