Word: owen
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...beast in man, it sometimes brings out the best in literature, from The Trojan Women to War and Peace. This recording marches to the distant drum of World War I, and contains some of the finest and most moving war poetry ever written, notably by Britain's Wilfred Owen, who was killed in action in November 1918, and Siegfried Sassoon, who survived. The verbal montage of irony, pathos, and ribald gallantry is much akin to last season's searing musical, Oh What a Lovely...
There followed a dizzying succession of governments, eroding the war effort and sapping Vietnamese credibility about any regime in Saigon. General Duong Van Minh took over after Diem, to last just three months. Then came General Nguyen Khanh, who gave way to Harvard-trained Economist Nguyen Xuan Oanh ("Jack Owen") seven months later. Oanh had six days in office before Khanh bounced back in through the revolving door. Khanh gave way again, to Saigon Mayor Tran Van Huong, then whipped back in for a third-time rule of one month. Dr. Phan Huy Quat and his "Medicine Cabinet...
...spent most of his time working in research with graduate students. A freshman seminar and Nat Sci I, "Energy in Science and Technology," which he volunteered to give in '61, provided his first experiences in undergraduate teaching. Chalmers was "a little surprised" when he was named to replace David Owen as Winthrop's Master only four years later. But he made the transition without much difficulty...
Today former State Department official Owen Lattimore and John K. Fairbank '29, Francis Leo Higginson Professor of History, will discuss highlights of recent Chinese history. Morton H. Halperin, assistant professor of Government, will speak this afternoon on Chinese foreign policy, and be followed by a four-man panel discussion of Chinese policy toward specific nations...
...from 3 to 6:30 pm today, at the Hotel Continental and from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., Saturday, at PBH. Speakers for Saturday and Sunday include John K. Fairbank, Director of the East Asian Research Center, Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of government and history, and Owen Lattimore, professor of Chinese studies at the University of Leeds, England...