Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heinz Kluncker, a West German labor leader and the first Jerry Wurf Fellow at the Kennedy School, told a hushed audience about his youth in Nazi Germany. With a heavy German accent, he said he never agreed with the Nazi ideology and came to bitterly hate it when his mother was tortured by the Gestapo...
...told my mother 'I am going to run away from the German army as soon as I can, or else I'm going to take my guns, go into the Gestapo basement, and shoot anyone I can find,'" he said...
...That was really Ferraro?" asked Patrick W. O'Kelly II '90. "I was skeptical because going downstairs last night, she said `hi' to my mother and I didn't believe that it was Geraldine Ferraro," he said. "I'm going to have to call my mother and tell...
Clark's way of sparing no rod nor spoiling any child has touched many other hearts. Supportive letters have poured into his office. A professor's wife from Erie, Pa., tells Clark his philosophy and style are just right; a mother of two from Queens, N.Y., approves of his tough line; and a senior citizen from Olympia, Wash., writes simply, "I wish we had a few more like you." Many of the letters contain money -- in amounts from $2 to $100 -- for Clark's defense fund. This past week brought some big bucks. Jack Berdy, chairman...
...shrewd ideas on topics as varied as how Shakespeare's The Tempest ought to be played (an amateur production is the fulcrum of the plot) to the role of egalitarian wartime food rationing in dismantling the old British class structure. The budding artist coolly looks on everything -- from his mother's death during World War II bombing to his own accidental hastening of an aged relative's demise -- as mere material. His outlook could be that of a genius or a schizophrenic or a psychopath. The confluence among those personalities is precisely Dickinson's point and confers most...