Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Power at Harvard," Dean Monro last night told the special Student Council Committee on reorganization, lies in a sensible idea, clearly expressed with good manners." But he also emphasized he was "anxious to have the think of politics" in any future Council. We must not get too precious."
Attempting to prove that Castro has improved life in Cuba, Vargas reeled off a long list of production increases. At this point he was interrupted by a student heckler asking about "population increases." An elderly lady sternly told the lad "to mind his manners."
Though Adams became skilled in the subtleties of diplomacy, he remained at heart a pragmatic, hidebound Yankee who viewed Europe's sophisticated society with suspicion. Far from being awed by Franklin, who was lionized by the French, Adams found the old man to be more interested in wining and...
Despite a swirl of criticism that its punishment was unduly harsh, the U.S. L.T.A. kept a self-righteous silence; there was also no indication whether the suspension would be lifted in time for Ralston to play in the U.S. Davis Cup team's interzone round against India this month...
But in chronicling the great events that convulsed the century-the religious wars, the confrontation of Christianity and rationalist philosophy, the growing defiance of the authority of kings-Durant is painstaking, persuasive and tolerant. Even academic critics no longer dismiss him as a mere popularizer, and he shows once again...