Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days after his release, Cross flew to London for a reunion with his wife, who had spent much of the long ordeal in Switzerland with friends. So eager was Cross to leave Montreal, where he had lived since 1967, that he passed up Trudeau's invitation to dinner. "It may be difficult for me to return," he said at the airport. "It's a bit sad that we ended up on this note...
...opposition in Vegas or quaking before the elegant threats of a capo from New York. Gena Rowlands (Mrs. Cassavetes outside the movies) does the tough-but-tender-broad routine with such wistful sexiness that her heart of gold is almost 24-carat. When she and Cassavetes play a boisterous reunion scene, the film, however briefly, is transformed from flyweight entertainment into something true and touching...
...self-help by $100 in the undergraduate scholarship budgets. No change in the composition of the entering classes is contemplated; 530 students in each class in the past three years have received some scholarship aid. All the income of the Harvard College Fund would again be available aside from reunion class expenses and scholarship gifts designated by donors as capital for named funds. Government contract overhead is presumed relatively unchanged. On the expense side individual salary increases were projected as in previous year and other costs were estimated on the best information available. But $1.5 millions is not an acceptable...
...current year, 1970-71. As far as revenue is concerned, full-time tuition was increased $200 bringing the level for the current year to $2600. For the first time the President and Fellows approved the current expenditures of all of the Harvard College Fund, after the expenses of reunion classes, rather than putting $500,000 or $700,000 into endowment as has been done in recent years from this vital annual giving from alumni...
Writing in his 25th reunion classbook last year, Cross said "A college today stands uneasily between the turbulence we now take for granted in adolescence and the disarray of contemporary society. It's unreasonable to expect that most students will experience four 'bright college years.' ... Young people today find themselves in a society both more affluent, and so powerful, and less sure of itself (probably rightly so) than any previous American society. I hope our prescription for college students, college faculty, and college administrators can be not purgative so much as energizing...