Word: pamphleteered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publications are designed to keep alumni in touch with Harvard, he said. One bi-monthly pamphlet profiles a different "Harvard personality" in each edition, ranging from M. Robert Coles '50, research psychiatrist at the University Health Service, to William Emper '77, captain of the football team...
...successor, President Lowell, imposed quotas for Jewish students at Harvard in the early 1920s. In 1927, he served on a special three-man panel which made the final determination that Sacco and Vanzetti be executed. In 1936, at Harvard's Tercentenary celebration, a group of Harvard alumni circulated a pamphlet showing how the arguments Lowell used in justifying Sacco and Vanzetti's executions were similar to those being used to promote fascist movements in Europe...
...affect donations to the Fund, Clifton says. "Alumni need to feel they belong to a chronolgoical experience, not just four years," Peterson adds. The magazine will go free of charge to all alumni on alternate months. When the magazine does not publish, the Fund will send out a small pamphlet called Forum. Forum is not a fundraising appeal, he says, but a brief, more personal profile of a member of the faculty. Five or six times each year, the Fund will also send out a "flat, outright appeal," he says. Recent alumni surveys showed that 83 per cent...
Bright's system sometimes touches the right-wing edge of politics. In 1974, during a Campus Crusade campaign that drew hundreds of thousands in Seoul, Bright praised the anti-Communist South Korean dictatorship for supposedly allowing more religious liberty than the U.S. A year ago, he wrote a pamphlet to urge U.S. Christians to elect "men and women of God" to public office. He also got entangled with Third Century Publishers, which espouses Evangelical Christianity and hard right-wing politics. (It opposed Jimmy Carter because of his liberalism.) Even the tolerant Billy Graham publicly criticized Bright for trying...
There are not enough of these moments to save the picture, but they do make one eager for the writer's first effort in what is surely his true metier - the pamphlet...