Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...different from its immediate predecessors. Admissions Dean Fred Glimp says that while its median college board score is perhaps a point or so higher than '65 there is no reason to claim that '66 is substantially, if any, brighter than other classes currently at Harvard. But if they possess no transcendental intellectual skills, the freshmen certainly lack the inhibitions that featured previous Yardlings. Dean Glimp and Freshman Dean Von Stade report that the seminar-coffee hours this year, based on reading that was sent out during the summer, were lively and provocative. The Class of '64 received a similar reading...
...Braque, Brancusi. etc., admired and copied African art. "The entire modern movement in Western art owes a debt to primitive Africa, and that is the point we are trying to make with this exhibition." McEwen says. "It is a fact that very few artists of contemporary style do not possess some well digested but evident influences of Africa...
...suffered a mild heart attack four months ago). After that, he may accept an offer to be editor of Bogota's new Liberal newspaper. La Tarde, and will enjoy the opportunity "to read a book in peace once again." Says Lleras: "The most important thing my successor will possess is having gained office in a true and open election." In Latin America that is quite a heritage for a departing President to leave behind...
...Henry J. Taylor. Taylor had phoned Schlesinger to ask whether his outside writing was not in conflict with the executive order. Somewhere along the line, Arthur called Taylor an idiot, and said: "It is obvious to me that I write for people who have higher intellectual qualities than you possess." Finally, Schlesinger hung up on Taylor. And in his column, Taylor hung one on Schlesinger. "Any citizen,'' he wrote, "who thinks for one minute that the risks in general from the Schlesinger mentality, operating in abundance at the policy level, are overstated is tragically, tragically mistaken...
Tractitioning, as earnest LeRoy Cluff Major, 46, practices it, consists of planning every aspect of a housing development with a staff of specialists such as few builders possess-or can afford. In the 16 years since he went into tractitioning. Major and his employees have drawn up designs for 400,000 houses in 15 states from North Carolina to Hawaii...