Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tears were in the eyes of this sentimental old codger (74) as I read the poem about Belmont [May 31]. It was absolutely wonderful...
...cool, very calm, very stable and quite lucid." John Doe demanded the details of a sexy Los Angeles murder case. "I want to ask the questions now," he remarked. "Why don't you answer my questions?" He talked about the stock market, an article on Hawaii that he had read recently, his liking for gardening, his belief that criminal justice discriminates against the underdog. When he felt that the investigators were talking down to him, he snapped: "I am not a mendicant." About the only things he would not discuss were his identity and the events at the Ambassador Hotel...
Never an intellectual, Bobby nonetheless read a great deal, particularly after Dallas. While Jack would read simply for delight, Bobby would always choose a writer who had something practical to tell him. Aeschylus, who introduced the tragic hero to literature, was his "favorite poet." On the death of Martin Luther King Jr., he used the lines: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God." Asked once why he strove so hard, Kennedy again quoted from Aeschylus: "When...
...event unprecedented in Radcliffe commencement history, Rachel Radio Lieberman '68 read a statement voted overwhelmingly by the senior class supporting men who refuse to serve in the armed forces. The crowd applauded the statement vigorously...
Wirtz's citation read "A devoted public servant; in moderating conflicts of power he steadfastly affirms reason and right...