Word: mr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article by your Mr. Alexander in the Freshman Registration Issue, while purporting to bid the class of '72 "Hello! Hello!," seemed, rather than a greeting, to be a potent mixture of good and bad rhetoric, of truth and error, of hope and despair, of, if you will, "Hello!" and "Goodbye!" A partial antidote is here offered...
...Mr. Alexander is on the one hand quite right: for anyone is mistaken who came here expecting to be entertained at lectures delivered by professors passionately devoted to capturing forever the adolescent mind; they are indeed too busy with their own concerns for that. The sad truth is, however, that not only at Harvard, but in every school, the only intellectual stimulation of lasting value is from within a student himself; no classroom, however glittering, can goad him to an end he is loath to achieve. The professors Mr. Alexander describes have failed indeed: but they have failed...
...soft on inflation and soft on law and order over the years" ? in fact, "squishy soft." Because of Humphrey's attempt to straddle hawk and dove lines on Viet Nam, said Agnew, the Vice President "begins to look a lot like Neville Chamberlain." He added: "Maybe that makes Mr. Nixon look more like Winston Churchill...
Traditional Role. Richard Nixon's strategists had assigned Agnew the traditional aggressive role of the running mate, but they scarcely anticipated such thrusts. "I am more blunt than Mr. Nixon," the Governor explained. "I can't change. I'm that way." Agnew's way may, in fact, prove a political boon to the G.O.P. After his attack oh Humphrey, the initial speculation was that he had damaged the Republican cause. That feeling eventually gave way to another. In 1968, a year when a strongly conservative mood has gripped many voters (see box, page 22), such a note of toughness...
...recalled how Nixon told Southerners during the G.O.P. Convention in July that the Republican Party had no intention of ramming anything down anybody's throat. "He's correct about that," said Wallace. "He and Mr. Eisenhower and Mr. Warren have already rammed everything down our throats there is to ram. Well, we gonna have a good throat-clearin...