Word: manley
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...people were killed and 20 injured in angry demonstrations and looting triggered by a 21% rise in fuel prices, the latest austerity measure by the government of Prime Minister Edward Seaga. Protesters blocked roads with debris until broadcast appeals by Seaga and his political opponent, former Prime Minister Michael Manley, ended the disturbances by late Wednesday. Soon after, a calm blanketed the city, broken only by sporadic looting and the sound of bulldozers clearing the wreckage from the streets...
Finally, whenever necessary, professors must re-learn the art of teaching the humanities. At a recent luncheon, a 93 year old former History and Literature tutor was invited to speak about the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. When he elected to discuss. "The Windhover," and "Felix Randall," I could not help chuckling; he had chosen the poet's two most famous poems. How naive! Then he proceeded to praise the noble ideals, sublime truths, and beautiful thoughts embodied in the two poems. I could feel the Harvard literati of today being overwhelmed with bored amusement at the sweet...
...political Left. Michael Manley, former Prime Minister of Jamaica, will be talking on the subject of "The Future of North-South Relations" at the Kennedy School Forum on Friday...
...MidTerm Break," records the funeral of his young brother, struck by a car and buried in "a four foot box, a foot for every year." Young Seamus might have followed his father into the fields, had he not been introduced as a teen-ager to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the English Roman Catholic convert who became a priest and master poet. "A verse of his described an old farmyard and talked about 'weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.' Something in that language touched some secret storage of imagery that had been there...
...museum but of a public policy center to be administered by Hoover. Last spring, 84 of Stanford's 1,200-member faculty and 1,500 of its 12,000 students signed a petition demanding an inquiry into the relationship between Hoover and Stanford. Said Political Science Professor John Manley: "The problem with the Hoover Institution is that it engages in political activities that call into question the neutrality of the university." Two months ago, the Stanford faculty senate voted unanimously in favor of requiring the proposed center to operate under "normal academic governance" (meaning that appointments would be approved...