Word: marius
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mildly, things were going well for Harvard's Senior Lecturer on English, Richard C. Marius, in early July...
...Marius, who helped Vice President Al Gore '69 write at least two speeches in the past, had accepted an offer to do the job full time...
...Marius, 62, got a year-long leave of absence approved by Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles; he'd rented out his Belmont house; and he'd even started packing. Everything was in place for the bowtie-wearing former Expository Writing director to be Gore's new chief speech writer...
Then, on July 9, everything changed. Marius received a message in an early morning telephone call from Gore's communications director, Lorraine Voles...
...Marius' review was followed by a flurry of angry letters. And the prospect that the review could embarrass the vice president--or alienate constituents--was apparently enough to get Marius...