Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town meeting and the poll in Lowell did convince Stewart that his charges were strongly behind changes in parietal rules. Other Masters brushed off the polls in their Houses very quickly. "There has to be discussion," went the typical remark still, all of them know exactly what their students wanted. That wasn't hard to figure out, even without the polls. But they felt they couldn't simply go by that kind of sentiment. Nonetheless Stewart supported his boys...
...silence its critics," McGovern patronizingly absolved Westmoreland of blame, "because he is obviously doing exactly what he is told to do by his Commander in Chief." Florida Democrat Spessard Holland, one of the few non-doves on the floor during McGovern's tirade, took exception to that remark. "The Senator from Florida," said Holland, "does not think that General Westmoreland is a Charlie McCarthy, to come over here and tell the people of this country what someone else wants them to hear...
...gentleman who was reading the 1937 report of the International Recording Secretary of the World Home Economics and Children's Aptitude and Recreation Foundation of which my good friend, Dr. Mary McTwaddle, formerly of Vassar, is the American delegate. This aroused my interest and I ventured to remark that I had once had the pleasure of entertaining a group of young people who were deeply concerned with the neglected problem of the Unmarried Father. It turned out that the gentleman himself was an unmarried father so we had a very interesting chat until he got off at Metuchen...
...Harvard junior faculty is based on a three-year instructorship followed by a five-year assistant professorship." This remark is totally misleading unless one realizes that Harvard is the only school in the country requiring a Ph.D. in hand for all instructors. In all other major universities (Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Berkeley), a man who actually holds the Ph.D. automatically becomes an assistant professor. Therefore, Harvard instructors (all of whom must have Ph.D.s) would be assistant professors at any other university and would consequently earn higher salaries...
...Juvenal and Horace efforts in Near the Ocean now show Lowell as the proper envy of every translator in English: he has been able to have his cake and eat it. By this I mean that the relevance of Pasternak's remark, true enough for ordinary translators, has faded with respect of Lowell. Calling the poems "Translations" in the introductory more, and distinguishing among them the various degrees of freedom employed, he has managed to combine close fidelity to the literal text with tonal fidelity in an overwhelming percentage of lines and stanzas. And he has managed this working primarily...