Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger of hitching your reputation to scholarship is that once you build a research factory, you cannot readily convert your vast plan to the production of educated alumni. For if scholarship is to be anything, it must be cosmopolitan. The scholar must therefore speak to a national or international audience, not to the local parish. Such an audience naturally focusses his first loyalty in the universal "discipline," rather than on his employer, the local university. Moreover, his prestige with this national audience is primarily determined by what he himself produces, secondarily by what his departmental colleagues produce, and hardly...
...Britain's allies posed the same question that Russian diplomats in London had been asking for two weeks: What did Macmillan expect to accomplish by all this? Macmillan himself had described his trip as "something in the nature of a reconnaissance." He did not have the authority to speak for the Western alliance as a whole-though the British picture him, after Dulles' illness, as the No. 1 Western leader. Nor had he any intention of trying to negotiate a solution to the Berlin crisis. He did hope, in his urbane way. to correct a few misimpressions...
...What well-educated natives," exclaimed a Midwestern matron upon arrival in the old British island of Jamaica. "They all speak English." ("What robbers!" she cried after her first taxi ride.) Everyone tried to fit in, and the first purchase was usually a hat-sometimes a yard wide, sometimes a yard high. But one visitor to San Juan, stepping briskly across the lobby of the Condado Beach Hotel in his floppy straw hat, checkered sports jacket, shorts, suede shoes and sunglasses, had a moment of self-doubt. "Do I look too much like a tourist?" he asked a friend...
...Behrman '16, playwright and author, arrived at Kirkland House yesterday for a week's visit. He will speak in the Kirkland Junior Common Room Monday night and meet with small groups of House members on various occasions during his stay...
...Where Does The Republican Party Go from Here?" is the topic of his address at 3:45 p.m. in Aldrich 112 at the Business School. He will also speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Both meetings are open to the public...