Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long the course shopper's Via Condotti, the Fine Arts Department is offering at least two bargains this autumn. The first is Fine Arts 152a (Tu. Th. at 11), billed in the catalogue as Prof. Ackerman's course, but placed at the last moment in the worthy hands of young, brilliant Everett Fahy. Fahy teaches Fifteenth Century Italian Art with a sympathy for both his subject and his students. For Low Country fans, there is Prof. van Regteran Altena, who wowed his first class by delivering a forty-minute lecture in verse (on Seventeenth Century Dutch Art). The rest...
...allowing the university to decree when and how long parietals may be operative, the masters arrogate to themselves the right of determining an official schedule or time-table of sexual intimacy. Like Napoleon, who could tell at any given moment what was being taught in the schools of France, the masters and deans can estimate at certain designated hours the activities going on in a fair proportion of Harvard Houses. The rule of thumb by which the masters calculate the number of parietal hours belongs more appropriately in a novel by Jonathan Swift. Are they saying that below a certain...
That is the position of just about anyone who would assay the state of the American republic at this moment from that middling vantage point known generally as liberalism. Two views are possible. On the one hand it may be argued that the nation is entering a period of political instability from which it will not emerge intact. The opposite view is that we are entering--have entered--a time of troubles which, however, we will not only survive, but from which we will emerge having learned something from it all, and having demonstrated anew the deep sources of stability...
...reputation as an acerbic critic of Tory and Labor governments alike during his five-year (1961-66) governorship. His stature among bankers was enormous-and helped to raise the rescue funds overnight when eleven nations, including the willing U.S., came to the defense of the British pound at its moment of greatest peril...
...moment, Munro is counting on oft-injured junior Ahmed Yehia to fill the center forward spot. If his infected toes give trouble, the call will go to Nick Hallett, a strong sophomore though not a dangerous shooter...