Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder whether many people are aware that the mere fact of being a Jew and being alive and head up is already an achievement," Meir said...
Like most old Harvard organizations, the Pudding can claim its share of famous alumni. J.P. Morgan '89 was a terrible business manager. Humorist Robert Benchley '12 was "dazzling" as the hairdresser Mayme O'Brien in The Crystal Gazer. The young Frankling Roosevelt '04 a mere stage hand, found his niche in history as the President of The Crimson. Most of us know Archibald Cox '34 as Solicitor General and University troubleshooter in the Pusey years. Few could today visualize him as a chorus girl in Pudding on the Ritz 40 years...
POPKIN'S DEFENSE presupposed that a clear distinction can be drawn between those who are scholars and those who are mere citizens. His argument is based on a corporatist vision of society, where different people play different roles, and have a correspondingly different legal status. The claims of reporters to a journalists' privilege are analogous in their assumption of a social division of labor which concentrates the investigative function in a distinct class. Popkin and other academics could be the brains of society, and reporters would be the eyes--leaving the rest of us to fight for the positions below...
...what local Culture Critic Rolf Kaltenborn calls "the worst art per square inch of any place in the world"; a brand new Rolls-Royce dealership that has sold 35 cars since its opening in West Palm Beach last September; and a mayor who campaigns, usually unopposed, in a mere Cadillac...
...should be shot in his own home town. The reason: so that "everyone, including his parents, can see." Last week, in seven separate ceremonies before crowds of coerced and sullen spectators, alleged guerrillas were dragged from police Land Rovers, tied to trees or stakes in stadiums, city parks or mere clearings and then shot to death with bursts of automatic rifle fire. At Mbale, where 3,000 people showed up for the event, an army captain and a 17-year-old schoolboy -whose only crime seemed to be eye-witnessing the shooting of a soldier -were stripped naked and covered...