Word: senecas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arrayed in their red-white-and-blue caps and gowns, the 117 graduating students of Eisenhower College in Seneca Falls, N.Y., were waiting politely for inspiring words from their main speaker, World Magazine Editor Norman Cousins. Cousins, however, was nowhere to be found, so Trustee Chairman and ex-NATO Commander General Lauris Norstad announced that he himself would read a homily delivered by Eisenhower back in 1950. As for Cousins, he had confused his dates and gone out golfing. "I have been invited to make about 100 commencement talks in the past 30 years, and this is the first unmitigated...
There has always been a great deal of mutual suspicion in confrontations between American Indians and American officialdom, but there was also-at one time at least-considerable dignity and pride. That was in the early days of the Republic, when men like the great Seneca leader Red Jacket could lead a delegation of 50 chiefs to Philadelphia (as he did in 1792) to talk about tribal relations with another powerful sovereign, President George Washington...
...national scene. Tall, handsome and 33 -he will be the U.S.'s youngest Governor-Lawyer Bond has assets that go well beyond a wealthy family and a Deerfield-Princeton-University of Virginia pedigree. He won with energy and charm, crisscrossing the state in a chartered Piper Seneca to speak in a faint Missouri twang to factory hands, bar groups and housewives on an issue that he has been able to mine deeply after two years as state auditor: mismanagement and corruption...
Walter Carlos: Sonic Seasonings (Columbia, 2 LPs, $6.98). When the Roman philosopher Seneca said, "All art is but imitation of nature," he didn't know the half of it. Today's electronic composer no longer bothers to imitate nature the way Vivaldi did in The Four Seasons. Tape recorder in hand, he simply camps at the seashore or in a rain forest, and lets Mother Nature herself compose an accelerando of breaking waves or a pizzicato polka of storm effects. Then he adds electronic sounds-whirrr, ping, eeeeeee, r-r-r-roar-and voila...