Word: personally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Memorial Hall, 8-12 p.m. Thursday. $2 per person plus presentation of Harvard Summer School Privilege Card or Harvard-Radcliffe Bursar Card...
...handful of Germans, notably Philosopher Karl Jaspers, has declared that they knew what was happening. But the great majority of Germans still maintain their innocence of any knowledge about the Nazi crimes. Even when testimony to that effect comes from so distinguished a person as Chancellor Kiesinger, many non-Germans will find it difficult to accept...
...planned for this fall, Britain has already begun to look forward to next year's top event. To mark the 50th anniversary of the first transatlantic airplane crossing (made by two Britons in a Vickers Vimy bomber), the London Daily Mail has put up $12,000 for the person who makes the fastest trip between the top of London's General Post Office tower and the top of the Empire State Building...
...scans a lifetime by focusing on a greying couple as they rummage through old snapshots. Says Adman David Ogilvy: "The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife." Adwoman Mary Wells, president of Wells, Rich, Greene, sounds the credo of the new uncommercial makers: "You have to talk person to person with people, use people words and people terms. You have to touch them, show humanness and warmth, charm them with funny vignettes. You have to make them feel good about a product so they'll love...
...pedantical." And there are hundreds of puns, many be-labored mercilessly. How many of today's theatregoers relish extended puns on long-obsolete terms for a male deer of the second, third, and fourth year? Or puns that require the knowledge that 'suitor' was pronounced 'shooter' and that 'parson,' 'person,' and 'pierce' were homophones? How many of you are familiar with words like kersey, farborough, caudle, inkle, thrasenical, and placket? You do know 'half' and 'capon,' but not in their meaning of 'wife' and 'love-letter.' And there is a parade of obscure proper names, Elizabethan slang, malapropisms, and sentences...