Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are competent people about--students and section men alike. But Finley, for 25 years Master of Eliot House, reserves his highest praise for those who possess the elusive and transcendent quality of flair. His own, of course, is legendary. In appearance he combines the best traits of Henry James' English gentleman and Robert Frost's New England farmer. Custom tailored three-piece suits with cuffs that really button set off a lined, craggy face. The white hair is long, sometimes over the collar, and the flaring bushy eyebrows suggest now an urbane devil, now a hoary Puck...
...remarkable gift for selfcontrol. In his personal manner, and in his writing and speaking, he apparently has complete control over his emotions. They never intrude into the bright, short sentences. This could be the product of years of iron selfdiscipline and scholarly commitment, but Fairbank seems to possess a more natural gift--perspective. Behind that curious, expressionless face lies...
Harrison C. White, associate professor of Sociology, contended that Faculty members did not have enough information to deal effectively with the deferment question. They did not have detailed information about student opinion on deferments, he said, nor did they possess enough knowledge about the consequences of eliminating...
...urban universities tended to stand aloofly apart from the cities in which they lived. But the schools' hunger for more land, the traffic and housing problems they create, have sharpened old town-gown tensions - and have also made administrators more conscious of the fact that their institutions may possess the intellectual resources to help create what Hester calls "a renaissance in urban life." University of Pennsylvania's President Gaylord P. Harnwell believes that the modern university "is not beholden to any political or economic master," and thus is "the last major institution of urban life that...
...working in plays by contemporary playwrights. My initial falling in love with a play is an emotional reaction. If I'm then going to make out of the play a performance which has any stature or substance, then I will have to apply to it whatever intellect I possess...