Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kruzel remarked that the atmosphere "was very respectful," and that no one asked "the hard questions, the 'devil's advocate' questions." He said Kissinger made no mention of returning to Harvard on a permanent basis...
...mention this story because it reminds me of my experience at Harvard; although I don't have any sympathy for what the Confederate survivors were glorifying, I have a Lost Cause of my own, and I think I know how their sons must have felt. I haven't been particularly enthusiastic about the mood of reconciliation that has prevailed in the time I have been in college, and I have been told many times that a few years ago, before I was here, students were fighting for a cause that was noble and just. The idea is a wonderful focus...
...proposed draft provides for three separate marriage services. In the first and more traditional Celebration and Blessing of a Marriage, the minister's charge to the couple makes no mention of "the dreadful day of judgment." The second is a shorter, simplified civil service, and the third version is a free-form "order for marriage" that allows couples and priests virtually to write their own ceremonies in accordance with the canons of the church. No mention is made of the ancient admonition: "Those whom God hath joined together let no one put asunder...
...when they were in effect made instruments of social change. He himself is the first to point out that ten years after the Brown decision, only 1.17% of black schoolchildren were attending classes with white children in the states that once constituted the Confederacy. Nor does he neglect to mention that after 20 years 259 Chicago schools were 90% (or more) black, while 109 were 90% (or more) white. Yet obstinately, unfashionably-for surely this is not the civil rights '60s-he stands by his thesis...
...mention of Kleindienst's conviction was made in the low-key 15-minute ceremony. It was clear that the department was trying to routinely follow its practice of displaying the portraits of all past Attorneys General. There is more apprehension over what to do about John Mitchell, the first Attorney General ever convicted of a felony (Kleindienst's crime was a misdemeanor). So far, Mitchell has not found time to pose for an artist...