Word: phi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard, he majored in mathematics: "It is much the same as legal thinking-it teaches you to be precise and logical." To meet his expenses, he also worked as a milkman, janitor, driver of a launch for the freshman crew and a painter of handball courts. He made Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude. In 1932, he got his Harvard law degree, clerked for Federal Judge John Sanborn, then joined a leading Minneapolis law firm. A lifelong Republican, he was appointed a federal judge by President Eisenhower in 1959. His fellow judges all have high respect for Blackmun...
...writing extensively again after recuperating from a 1 965 operation for lung cancer. That they came from so many disciplines demonstrated that Lonergan's influence has gone far beyond his original field of theology. In fact, says Fordham Jesuit Bernard Tyrell, Lonergan has become a true "phi losopher of culture": in his grasp of the process of understanding that un derlies every science, he is the 20th cen tury counterpart of a Renaissance...
...Oliver Goldsmith (1770) I INTIL recently only dyspeptic phi-V-' losophers, conservationists and a handful of academics dared to question the proposition that economic expansion necessarily fosters human progress. Each jump of the national output of goods and services has been treated as a triumph, each fall as a setback. Like other affluent Western countries, the U.S. has avidly pursued prosperity, convinced that a rising standard of living would ameliorate if not dispel most economic and social ills...
Harris was largely a victim of circumstances. His selection as co-chairman of Citizens for Humphrey-Muskie indicated how fast he had risen after just three years in the Senate. Harris, 39, is a bright (Phi Beta Kappa, University of Oklahoma), lively politician who manages to remain popular in a conservative state despite his liberal views on social issues and his criticism of the Administration's Viet Nam War policy. But as party chairman, he carried two huge handicaps: 1) rebuilding a shattered party is a full-time job that stretches a hard-working Senator...
...McGill, the trip east will be a homecoming. Born in The Bronx, he worked his way through Fordham University, graduating as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1943. After earning his doctorate from Harvard, he joined the Columbia faculty and rose to become chairman of the psychology department. Five years ago, convinced that Columbia was headed downhill and uneasy about the university's tense relations with its ghetto neighbors, McGill went to the new campus at San Diego. "I reflected on what kind of revenge society could take against an institution for ignoring its environment," he says...