Word: nash
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Nutt cited a letter Hartman received last June from William W. Nash Jr. '50. then chairman of the GSD's Department of City and Regional Planning, which charged that Hartman's teaching conveyed "a sense of political strategy more than the substance of city and regional planning." and that his "loyalties to the School and the University have lessened (sic) rather than increased during the past three years...
...Playmates' great hit song, how fast was the Cadillac going when it got passed by the little Nash Rambler...
...revisionists have a particular quarrel with the dominant scholarly voice of the recent past: what they call "consensus history," as exemplified by such diverse writers as Richard Hofstadter of Columbia, Daniel Boorstin of the Smithsonian Institution, Henry Nash Smith of the University of California at Berkeley, and George Kennan of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The consensus historians, who came to maturity during World War II and the early years of the cold war, exhibit an understandable hostility to totalitarianism in their writings. By contrast, they emphasize the spirit of compromise and accommodation in American history. Compared with...
...publishing houses; of a heart attack; in Boston. Thornhill liked to regard himself as simply a salesman, but he was much more. His good taste, enthusiasm for literature and unfailing respect for his writers attracted many eminent authors, including Samuel Eliot Morison, John P. Marquand, Katherine Anne Porter, Ogden Nash, J. D. Salinger and Peter De Vries. In 1962, after almost 50 years with the company, Thornhill turned the presidency over to his son, Arthur H. Jr., but retained the chairmanship, in which he remained active until his death...
Perhaps the broadest shift in rock fashion is the one exemplified by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and most of all by The Band. Though The Band calls it "just music?everything we've ever heard or done," the convenient label is country rock. However labeled, it is a turning back toward easy-rhythmed blues, folk songs, and the twangy, lonely lamentations known as country music. Country rock is also a symptom of a general cultural reaction to the most unsettling decade the U.S. has yet endured. The yen to escape the corrupt present by returning...