Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is the official line of Harvard, or as close as there comes to being an official line. I began to unlearn it immediately, naturally, and I recently decided that many of Harvard's better features are suggested in some lines of Ezra Pound about a tradition that there can be honesty of mind without overwhelming talent. My first encounter with Science at Harvard, for example, came during my first and pretty nearly my last bridge game there. It came a few weeks after the assistant dean's explanation, which it seemed to call into question, if not to contradict...
...says that summer jobs for middle-class youths have been "nearly nil" in his area. "They don't qualify for special programs for poor kids, and they don't have the contacts the rich kids have." Last spring, his advice to job seekers was: "Go out and pound the pavements and show you are really interested." Many have been doing just that-all summer long...
...gross national product has grown not at all for two years, while the population continues to increase by about 15 million every year. So the standard of living for the multitude has actually declined. In a glaringly pennywise, pound-foolish move, the government decided several months ago to cut back on its family planning, birth control and sterilization programs. Though land-reform laws have been passed, they have been carried out spottily...
...Association of Trial Lawyers of America is holding its third annual National College of Advocacy in the Roscoe Pound Center this week. The intensive program includes four lectures and two panels each day and a workshop every night...
...commune." He cleared the place out. Unsurprisingly, he can work anywhere and enjoy it. "I've made writers I know admit two things: how much they really love writing and what they owe Hemingway. I laugh when I hear one more guy say he owes everything to Ezra Pound." McGuane reveres genius. He winces when recalling that a friend told him that Faulkner had bad taste in furniture...