Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spoke and answered questions before a crowd of 35 at the Eliot Senior Common Room last night, talking about life at Harvard...
Last fall Mexico's President Jose Lopez Portillo tried to reopen the negotiations, dispatching ex-President Miguel Aleman to make contact with Schlesinger. Unable to meet the Secretary, Aleman went around him and spoke with White House aides. Schlesinger contends that he tried to keep the talks alive but that the Mexicans turned him down; the Mexicans vehemently say this is untrue...
...modern Merlin, conjuring up astonishing new notions of space and time, changing forever man's perception of his universe ?and of himself. He fathered relativity and heralded the atomic age with his famed formula E=mc2. Yet his formidable reputation never undermined his simple humanity. He spoke out courageously against social injustice. In his later years, dressed in baggy clothes, his white hair as unkempt as a sheep dog's, he helped yourgsters with their geometry homework, still loved to sail, play Mozart melodies on the violin and scribble reams of doggerel. Though he has been dead nearly...
During the committee's stay at Harvard, they examined a 30-page report criticizing the department, which a group of junior faculty members within Afro-American Studies handed to Dean Rosovsky several months ago. The committee also spoke with several department Faculty members and concentrators, a source said yesterday...
...Evelyn's experiences left him well stocked for his first novel, Decline and Fall (1928): "I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour." A young critic named Cyril Connolly spoke of Waugh's "delicious cynicism." Years later it was apparent that the vivacious style had been based on profound disgust...