Word: membered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside the University, the History Department is famous for its brilliant minds. Perhaps the best known member of the department is Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn, author of The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He doesn't teach many courses any more and has developed a reputation for deliberately ignoring undergraduates. Bailyn is nicknamed "Bud," but no one dares call him that...
...University, which in recent years has featured Commencement speakers from nascent Third World democracies, such as Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir P. Bhutto '73, is ruled by a seven-member, self-perpetuating clique called the Corporation...
...Corporation member Henry Rosovsky reportedly once said to a group of undergraduates, "You will be here for four years. I will be here all my life. Harvard will be here forever...
Many cynical Harvard watchers took little solace and pointed to the words of former Corporation member Andrew Heiskell, who said, "I suppose one says 'lady and gentlemen' instead of 'gentlemen,' but [otherwise] I don't think it makes that much difference in today's world...
...doubts about the overwhelming rejection of the Communist party by Polish voters earlier this month, they were firmly dispelled last week. By the end of the second round of sparsely attended balloting, the Solidarity trade-union movement had confirmed its victory by winning 99 seats in the 100-member Senate and all 161 opposition seats in the 460-seat Sejm, the lower house, where 299 places had been set aside in advance for the Communist alliance...