Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ronald P. Kriss, a senior editor of Time magazine, says, "This quiet generation business is a canard--we were not as quiet as were sometimes made out to be, just more discreet about our likes and dislikes...
Interest in McCarthy climaxed in the spring of 1954 during the televised Army-McCarthy hearings. Shapiro speaks for many classmates when he says, "I spent most of the spring of my senior year in front of a television." Christopher Lasch, a University of Rochester historian and author, adds that the only time he could remember so many people watching television was during the 1951 World Series. Updike says, "We were outraged and amused by this kind of buffoon. Nixon seemed that way too. From the safety of Harvard, it looked like an aberration in American politics--a subject in which...
...football team, always under intense undergraduate scrutiny, improved steadily as '54 grew older. As freshmen, the team won only once, but with the arrival of the backfield of Dick Clasby and the senator from Iowa, the Crimson went six and two in their senior year. According to a Crimson editorial, the victory over Yale in The Game--the first Harvard win in the Yale Bowl since 1941--"cast a self-satisfied glow over the College...
...Edward Kennedy announced that he was going to refrain from needling any presidents, either Jimmy Carter, whom he has criticized frequently, or the controversial John Silber, head of the university. "It is hard enough being a president these days. At least that is what I am told," bellowed the senior Senator from Massachusetts. "I, of course, don't have any firsthand experience at it." He paused a few seconds as the silent audience waited. Then he added what they all suspected he would: "Yet!" The crowd erupted with a roar of approval...
...Minister Qais Zawawi: "We do so out of the conviction that this treaty is the first step toward solving the problem of the Middle East and achieving a Palestinian solution. Even more, it is a realistic step toward improving our common regional security." But the trouble is, as a senior Western diplomat observes, "it would be a lot more meaningful and comfortable for Sadat if Oman were not sitting on a time bomb...