Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, John Zink, Korczak Ziolkowski, Clint Wescott, and Jim West (to name a few) are truly eccentric. Surely none of these men are trying to convince anyone else of the advantages of their own particular ways of life. They are simply "people who consistently follow their own seemingly exotic standards" and are clearly not bidding for attention. Consideration must be given to the motives and methods of the individual in relation to existing social standards and how he wishes to affect them. If he wishes to affect them at all, he is not merely eccentric, but is in fact...
...confided to the White House Radio and Television Correspondents' dinner that the President had tried to discourage him from ad-libbing his speech, suggesting that he should recite only his name, rank and serial number in stead. Said Agnew: "Well, I told him I thought I ought to say something more important than that, and he looked at me again. And, you know, for a minute there I thought I had a glimpse of the old Nixon...
...Pentagon spokesman accounts for the name thus: "It sounded catchy to somebody in the Joint Chiefs. It has no rhyme or reason...
...City Manager. Two Cambridge City Mangers have been fired within the last three years. The threat of another firing would probably assure that the current manager, James L. Sullivan, would follow up on his promising beginning in the housing area. Sullivan is reputed to want to "make a name for himself" while City Manager here; beginning a large-scale program for construction of low-rent housing by the City and the universities would be one good...
...deeply regret having done so; the letter implies the CRIMSON's errors to be infinitely greater in import than they really are. Since I was the particular focus of an intense and personally exhausting controversy in the department, I confess I felt momentarily intimidated, and so added my name to an explanation the length and punctilious detail of which makes for an air of fearful apology I think was completely uncalled for. The fact that the students knew Professor Levin was writing his won letter, and the fact as well that some had even seen it, makes one wonder what...