Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weinberger, "had we wanted to test Soviet radar, there are a lot better ways to do it than with a 747 jumbojet full of civilians." Moscow certainly remains eager to promote its version of events. It has taken the unusual step of allowing a well-known U.S. investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, to interview Soviet Chief of Staff Nikolai Ogarkov about the shooting and to visit a Soviet airbase...
...Henry's sentimental tales. One tells of a mother who died of cancer, leaving each of three sons a letter that began, "I always loved you best . . ." Among the most effective is the story of an old Jewish widow who chats happily every night with her dead husband Seymour. Her grown children think she is batty and put her in a home. She does not care; she gets through to her husband there too, and in fact meets another old woman, who says cheerfully that, sure, her own dead husband talks about Seymour...
...Corporation is often referred to as "The Oldest Self-Perpetuating Body in the Western Hemisphere" because it has continually replenished its ranks without outside interference since 1650, as Samuel Eliot Morrison and Seymour Martin Lipset describe in their histories of Harvard. But during the past 334 years its role within the University has changed considerably. The Corporation has always supervised Harvard's finances, but after 250 years of relatively easy management, the job has become increasingly complex in this century...
...perfected this technique in the later 1970s when leading a drive against an academic survey conducted by two sociology professors, Seymour M. Lipset and Everett C. Ladd. The study, to rank the nation's leading schools in a variety of disciplines, asked some 9000 professors to complete a questionnaire which Lang condemned as biased and overly subjective. He wrote to the authors, mobilized opposition among colleagues, protested to national education bodies about the study and found himself refereeing mail campaigns on both sides of the issue...
...secretary of state--if Reagan makes it to the Oval Office again--is Kissinger, another refugee from the Nixon White House. He has been called the greatest diplomat in the world, but he earned that title at a terrible human and ethical cost, as journalists like William Shawcross and Seymour Hersh have shown in recent years. Kissinger is everything Shultz and Weinberger are not. Where the later are bureaucratically clumsy, the former is manipulative. Where Winberger and Shultz have their integrity intact, Kissinger is called unscrupulous...