Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...truth is about to emerge. Dr. Andrew T. Weil '64, whom we trust because he went to Harvard Medical School and is one of the few physicians in the country doing research on marijuana, recently spoke on drugs at Harvard and told his audience that three studies showing that LSD causes no chromosome damage will not be coming out in current medical journals. (He further informed the audience that a University of Washington study comparing the effects of marijuana and alcohol on driving and showing that stoned drivers were indistinguishable from sober drivers was refused publication by the Journal...
Bruce Chalmers, Gordon McKay Professor of Metallurgy and Master of Winthrop House, spoke in favor of ending the strike. "The Faculty takes your demands seriously, but as a definition of problems that must be faced rather that as specific demands that must be met," he said. "The most recent statement of the Corporation convinces me that the Corporation is fully determined to adopt a more humane policy in the future and correct the damage done...
...wrote to her. "They tell me you can feel one's face and tell how they look." Wrote Miss Keller to Alexander Graham Bell in 1900: "I was perfectly delighted to receive your letter in braille. It seemed almost as if you clasped my hand in yours and spoke to me in the old, dear way." And in 1922, after hearing her lecture, Carl Sandburg wrote of "the surprise to find you something of a dancer, shifting in easy postures like a good blooded race horse...
...life depended on it, act out his compassion for the poor," says Sheed. "Politically, this subject demands a certain amount of Mammy-singing. You can denounce the war calmly, and the emotion will take care of itself. But when you come to poverty, you must perform. McCarthy spoke precisely as strongly about both subjects; yet he was felt to be passionate about Viet Nam, indifferent about race...
Violence characterized many of Hemingway's personal relationships too, as novelist John Dos Passes found out when he visibly and unflatteringly portrayed Hemingway in his novel Chosen Country. Hemingway spoke lividly of training his dogs and cats to "attack one-eyed Portuguese bastards." According to Baker, he called Scott Fitzgerald, who revered him, "a rummy and a liar with the inbred talent of a dishonest and easily frightened angel." Thomas Wolfe he rated as "a one-book glandular giant with the guts of three mice." Once he provoked a fight in a hotel dining room with William Saroyan...