Word: magna
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When James Toback (Harvard, magna cum laude, 1966) flew to Los Angeles to interview Jim Brown (Cleveland Browns, summa, 1965), there were some unnecessarily dressy items in his mental luggage: Nietzsche's code about "the genius of the heart," Keats' concept of "negative capability," and that always stylish bit about the pre-eminence of the black's psychosexual powers...
Lance Morrow normally writes American Notes, as well as handling other Nation assignments (he is the author of seven cover stories). A Harvard alumnus ('63, magna cum laude), Morrow has written poetry and plays, acted, worked as a newspaper reporter in Washington and once spent nearly a year touring the U.S. in an old Volkswagen bus. According to McManus, "Morrow has the highest velocity vocabulary of any writer on TIME. But even his most recherché words are so exquisitely targeted that they often cannot be changed. Now we only allow him three zingers per issue...
...Magna Carta...
...This could be the Magna Carta for reforming inequities in public services, just as the Brown case in 1954 was in the field of education," Haar said yesterday...
After graduating magna cum laude from the City College of New York in 1940, Sacks received his LL.B. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1948. He was law clerk to Judge Augustus N. Hand of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1948-49, and to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter the following year...