Word: nathaniel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Down in Mississippi, said Lawyer Nathaniel Jones bitterly, "those who resist change now realize that they can accomplish more by manipulating the legal system and the guys with the black robes than if they go out publicly in the white robes of the K.K.K." Jones, who is general counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, had good reason for his angry observation. Last week the N.A.A.C.P. narrowly averted financial disaster. Ironically for the organization that so often used the law and its own national resources to break segregation in one Southern town after another, the trouble...
Whose Lips? Though incapable of love, the extreme narcissist is likely to project his own idealized version of himself onto another person, then worship it for a while. A 19th century example: Herman Melville's attempt at "narcissistic merger" with Nathaniel Hawthorne. Melville wrote Hawthorne: "By what right do you drink from my flagon of life? And when I put it to my lips-lo, they are yours and not mine...
...side of sanity was Judge Nathaniel Saltonstall (A.B. 1659), who left the bench rather than be a party to taking innocent blood. And the minister Joshua Moodey (A.B. 1653) helped several of the accused to escape, thereby incurring public wrath. Thomas Brattle (A.B. 1676) attacked the judges' methods in a lengthy and influential letter, which was circulated in copies...
...dull, even for the summer. There are, short of visiting Maine or Western Mass., closer range methods of rural escape, fortunately. This one will kill you, but Mt. Auburn cemetery in West Cambridge, near Coolidge Hill, is simply beautiful, with a great view of Boston. You'll know that Nathaniel Hawthorne would have been proud of your ability to confront the forces of darkness. Harvard happens to own another close-to-home retreat, the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain (Boston...
...group, which was petitioned by 80 per cent of the project's residents to represent them on housing issues, is not opposed to construction of the Kennedy Library at Columbia Point, but wants to be directly involved in its planning, Nathaniel Hailey, co-chairman of the Columbia Point Housing Corporation, said yesterday...