Word: reacquainted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program ror Reunion Week, 1958, shows the marked tendency for the alumnus to use the week in Cambridge to reacquaint himself with the educational, as well as the "extra-curricular," aspect of his college days. Forums on the Soviet Union, space travel, and the place of the humanities in the scientific age demonstrate at once the increased seriousness of the Reunioners and the topics which may have encouraged this seriousness...
Spotting a dandy opportunity to reacquaint Roman readers with an old friend and get in a gratuitous whack at the U.S. at the same time, Italy's conservative Il Tempo paid a call on top-ranking poet and philosophical Wild Man Ezra Pound at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington. Groused Pound, who is confined to St. Elizabeths' grounds on a much-argued diagnosis of legal insanity, faces trial on 19 counts of treason (he broadcast eccentric, violently pro-Axis speeches from Italy during World War II) if he gets out. "At first," said Pound to Il Tempo...