Word: phi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Four Strands. At Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa exercises the following day, Bundy the Arguer became Bundy the Articulator. Hunched over the lectern in musty, dusty Sanders Theater, he spoke without a text, only occasionally referred to notes written on a yellow legal pad in his cramped southpaw hand -a handwriting so small that his White House secretaries use magnifying glasses to read...
Bill Bundy was in Jack Kennedy's class at the Dexter School in suburban Brookline, and Mac was a year behind. Still a year apart, Bill and Mac won top honors at Groton, were Phi Beta Kappa at Yale, were tapped by Eli's most elite senior society, Skull and Bones...
...from a woman who is not just a housewife but a poet, and who herself discounts housewifery by employing fulltime help. This attitude is slightly tinged with envy. Phyllis McGinley has managed, with stunning success, the very sort of life they advocate-and, what's more, like the Phi Beta Kappa effortlessly producing scholarship, she has made it look easy. From this housewife's mind, in between unstinted domestic chores, have come nine volumes of excellent verse, two books of essays and 15 children's books, half of them classics. "For all you could tell from...
Both petitions circulated in Phi Beta Kappa protesting Bundy's appearance here noted the former dean's "contempt for critics, lay and academic...
...Phi Beta Kappa oration, a most reasonable Bundy noted that he "did not want to take one side of a contested issue when he had a monopoly of the prose words." He closed by invoking John F. Kennedy's name to urge a close working relationship between the "world of ideas and the world of politics...