Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these semi-illicit gatherings we attracted such figures as Ramsey Clark, Dr. John Knowles, Norman Mailer, FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, Congressman Morris Udall, Justin Kaplan, literary agent Sterling Lord, Roger Wilkins, William Styron,Professor Howard Zinn of Boston University, and Harvard professors, including Wald, Galbraith, and Riesman. We hosted correspondents fresh from Vietnam, blacks representing all degrees of militancy, students of varied ideological stripes, urbanologists, magazine editors, former ambassadors, and a gaggle of ex-aides to Presidents. These provided the most valuable experiences of the Nieman season and revealed, I think, what the program might become in the hands...
...expended extraordinary energies and time in the bread-and-butter arrangements of travel, menus, audiences, and overnight accommodations due our semi-official guests-all without secretarial help-thus somewhat dulling hours in which we theoretically were to occupy ourselves in thinking great thoughts or uplifting journalism if not our immortal souls. My contribution to these frowned-upon seminars was to provide two men large in contemporary American letters, both of whom happened to be my special old literary heroes. Let us here consider the hazards of such an exercise in modern-day Cambridge, digressing to include arbitrary judgments on Norman...
There have been some concrete successes. Nixon is well on the way to achieving a historic reconstruction of the postal service, ending its status as a quadrennial patronage prize and placing it in the hands of a semi-independent corporation. He has made Selective Service more equitable. He has reorganized the key decision-making and administrative apparatus of the White House. In foreign and military affairs, Nixon has formulated and begun to accomplish a gradual but potentially significant pullback in both commitments and forces -a more realistic alignment of policy with power. Other reforms, however, have faltered. Among them...
...Fall, the Corporation will apparently have arrived at a list of semi-finalists, and will then conduct interviews with key students and student groups, again seeking their views. The final decision, the naming of the one man, will of course be unilateral and private...
...when the $25 million craft exploded into a ball of fire. Egyptian authorities seized the three commandos. At week's end, there were still no charges placed against them ?partly, no doubt, because Nasser had welcomed the Athens hijackers to Cairo last July as "patriots." However, Egypt's semi-official newspaper Al Ahram pointedly noted that "the attack on international civil aviation does not encourage world feeling of solidarity with the Palestine cause...