Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charismatic MacArthur, and he is not yet a hero, as was Ike when he returned from Europe in 1945. Yet from the moment when House Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller swept down the center aisle of the packed chamber last week and announced, in his resonant Southern accent, "Mistah Speak-ah, Gen'ral William C. Westmoreland," the tall, tanned soldier held Congress in thrall...
...reaction to the "summies" is not difficult to understand. Certainly not all the girls are dumb--Wellesley sends probably the largest contingent other than Radcliffe--and not all of them tease their hair, wear too much makeup, speak in raucous Brooklyn accents, or sport tight Harvard sweat-shirts. But you notice those. "You don't realize how attached you are to this place," a Harvard junior explained, "until you see it being raped." A Cliffie commented, "During the winter you share Cambridge with 5000 of your own kind, so you don't feel terribly close...
...same Harvard students who speak of the "summies" with scorn admit to having joined the "competiton for the bunnies"--as one put it--with relish. (Actually, the boys out-numbered the girls last year by more than 400.) Director Crooks, who views the scene with ironic humor from his seventh-floor office in Holyoke Center, remarks that "Some Harvard students wear those 'winter' buttons and keep to themselves, but some plunge right in and enjoy...
Mailer, author of The Naked and the Dead and An American Dream, will speak on May 6th in a presentation cosponsored by the Harvard Advocate...
Thomas P. F. Hoving, former N.Y. Parks Commissioner and Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will speak on "The Design of Politics and the Politics of Design" at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall. His speech begins Harvard's 11th annual-Urban Design Conference...