Word: smith
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...first day at the Law School, Dole recalled in a commencement speech at Smith College earlier this spring, "A male student came up to me and demanded to know what I was doing there...
Other Bunting fellows who have won theMacArthur Foundation "genius grants" in the pastinclude Anna Deavere Smith, head of the newInstitute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue atHarvard, and Professor of Education SaraLawrence-Lightfoot...
...cynic might respond that the world has quite enough morality already, and would be better off without the likes of Pope John Paul II, the Dalai Lama, political dissident Harry Wu, Alan Keyes '72 and representatives Christopher H. Smith and J.C. Watts advocating positions that may limit our "rights" of privacy and choice. But one look at the violent inhumanity that has recently shocked our nation shows that there is still some room for emphasis on old-fashioned "right and wrong...
...remember my roommates, of course. Farwell Smith '48-'49 took a strange trombone, most of it missing, to the football games. He'd go for one or two notes, and then a part of the trombone would fall out. One freezing afternoon, when the team was losing to Dartmouth, Farwell left his seat, leaving me his trombone, and ran across to the Dartmouth side. Back then the Dartmouth cheerleaders were Indians, their badges painted red, and they wore breached-clouts. To keep out of the cold they spent most of the afternoon huddled in their teepee...
Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr's investigations go on and on [NATION, May 11]. There are few things more frightening than a self-righteous, self-important "guardian" of public morals and minds like Starr, a tin-pot Torquemada and spiritual heir to Himmler. JENNIFER JOHNSTON SMITH Houston...