Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Davis sounds as if he believes no perceptive Negro can conceivably disagree with him, and this is simply not the case. Some Negroes here do believe Harvard is a sanctuary, inasmuch as one exists, where race is not in the eyes of every passer-by. Davis describes a bull-session at Andover where one of his classmates screamed at him "God, what an asshole." "Tears," said Davis, "welled up in my eyes. His words struck me in the heart; and I know how they were true. That was about the first decent human response I had received in my whole...
NEXT to operating, Dr. DeBakey likes most to talk about operations. In a recent session with fellow surgeons he had a new-old story to tell. In May of 1868, he said, a mounted scout rode up to an adobe building in Trinidad, Colo., marched into the office and asked: "Dr. Beshoar, will you please be here in two hours when General Carson will arrive by ambulance. He is very...
...recent question-and-answer session at the University of Pittsburgh, Vice President Hubert Humphrey was asked about "ghastly, barbarous American attacks in Viet Nam." Humphrey exploded: "I'm glad you asked about that! I'm really going to tear into you! Only the Viet Cong has committed atrocities in Viet Nam! The Viet Cong has committed the most unbelievable acts of terrorism the world has ever known...
...civilization consist in being able to disintegrate as well as integrate. If she can perform other operations (such as a ten-place multiplication problem) faultlessly, it is because she has learned them not by reason but by the same additive process--memorization. By the end of the arithmetic session, both characters are becoming exasperated. More and more, the professors dominates his unhappy pupil...
...original legislation ordering the underpasses to be built at Boylston St., River St., and Western Ave. was passed in 1962, and a number of attempts to modify or repeal this act were defeated by the legislature in its last session...