Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truly be called the founder, and the main supporter of American literature at Harvard in its early years. Kenneth Murdock has said that the history of the teaching of American literature at Harvard is not the story of "general attitudes, but of men," and Wendell is perhaps the prime example. An avowed Anglophile, his beard and spats gave him the appearance of "a real professor," in the words of one awed freshman in his course. It is told that upon walking into his first class of the term and being greeted by thunderous applause, he responded with an expression that...
Ever since Dwight Eisenhower named him Ambassador to Ceylon, millionaire New York Dress Manufacturer Maxwell H. Gluck has been trying to live down the howl that went up when he ingenuously admitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he did not know the name of Ceylon's Prime Minister...
...three weeks since he arrived in the palm-and frangipani-dotted capital of Colombo bravely proclaiming, "My name is Gluck, and it rhymes with pluck," Gluck has got on famously. On his first official call, Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike confided genially that Gluck was not the first to have trouble with his name. After four years at Oxford, Bandaranaike told Gluck, he had only two friends who got it right...
That night Prime Minister Bandaranaike had a private chat with his Education Minister, and the next morning Dahanayake took the only way out: he baldly denied that the incident had taken place. "There is no truth," he said, "in reports that I refused to see the U.S. Ambassador." Ceylonese, who know a rude minister from an earnest ambassador, were beginning to see some good in Mr. Gluck...
...When Prime Minister John Diefenbaker proposed last July that Canada trim its trade deficit with the U.S. by diverting 15% of its trade from the U.S. to the United Kingdom, he unintentionally put Britain's Tory leadership on the spot. The Empire-thumping wing of the British Tories, which strongly opposes London's tentative plan to join the European Free Trade Area, pounced on Diefenbaker's suggestion as opening up a practical alternative, even though Diefenbaker gave no real inkling on how the Canadians proposed to implement the shift. Last week Britain's Chancellor...