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Ionesco's stubborn refusal to align his art with the politics of these "engaged" critics and Party members had its consequences. Several months later, after seeing an untouched revival of The Chairs, the same critics who had previously lauded him now apologized for their mistaken praise. "They simply said the play was not worth seeing," says Gaetan. "He was told he no longer had the talent...
...several stubborn facts block any implication that Oswald was directed by foreign agents to hunt down Kennedy in Texas. He found his job in the Texas School Book Depository building by chance, and long before it was known that Kennedy planned to ride in a motorcade past the building. If the killing actually was planned by foreign agents, Oswald was the luckiest assassin in history. It is far more likely that he saw his unexpected opportunity-and took...
...chemist during World War I and a professor of chemistry at Harvard for 14 years thereafter, Conant was partly responsible for the World War II decision to make an atomic bomb and to use it at Hiroshima in 1945. As president of Harvard (1933-53), the self-effacing but stubborn Conant instituted a number of improvements that changed the character of higher education: he broadened the makeup of the student body, argued for a core curriculum of "general education" and promoted national scholarships. He left Harvard to become High Commissioner to Germany and subsequently the first Ambassador to the Federal...
...Several days later, 10,000 students massed in Soldiers Field and voted a general strike to support the demands. For the following days, most students boycotted their classes. Most Harvard students seemed to have been convinced by recent events that strong methods of protest were necessary to make a stubborn Corporation and a preoocupied Faculty listen...
Evans put the icemen ahead to stay at 6:03 with his seventh goal of the campaign. With George leading a three on one break, the freshman backhanded the puck in for good after two stubborn rebounds off shots by Hughes and linemate Randy Millen...