Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With two friends, Paul Freeman and Owen Penney, Reed boosetd the Bolshevik leader up. Granville Hicks reported...
Before he knew what was happening, Lenin found himself high on Reed's and Freeman's shoulders, gazing down on a bewildered crowd. Ignorant of American customs, or perhaps disapproving, he protested, and, when protests did no good, kicked. They let him down, Reed, unabashed, joking at the bump on Penney's forehead...
When John Reed, son of an Oregon liberal, reached Cambridge in the fall of 1906, Charles W. Eliot was to serve only two more years as president of Harvard and would turn over to A. Lawrence Lowell a tradition of freedom and excellence that has characterized Harvard this whole century...
...Freedom is the condition necessary to the progress of society," Eliot told Reed's assembled class. "A striking phenomenon of our day is the distrust of freedom that is manifesting itself in all walks of life...
...class of 1910 produced a number of individuals whose use of this freedom was to develop into diverse, but highly articulated philosophies. In addition to Reed, there was Walter Lippman, T.S. Eliot, Heywood C. Broun, Alan Seeger, and Hamilton Fish...