Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knew each other from high school back in Harverford, Pa., to have a reunion financed by their student governments. The rumor, strangely, seemed credible--all these people could do was pass resolutions, talk for hours on end to no purpose, and argue about procedure. Nevertheless, 20 Harvard-Radcliffe students thought it worth their time and effort to do the research necessary to prepare reports for each of the eight committees of the conference, and then go down to Philadelphia for the four-day meet...
...this conference had been worth it, let alone whether they wanted another one. At first students tried to amend the proposal to knock out the seven slots afforded the current conference organizers and to change the wording so that there might be a conference next year if people thought it wise. But resentment and grumbling was rising in the ranks. The organizers put a new chairman in charge of the meeting to keep order, but he couldn't stem the rebellious tide. Eventually, delegates tabled the whole idea in disgust, thereby leaving the question unresolved and saying, in effect...
Several of those questioned recommended that the mayor step down. Others thought that all he had to do to clear his name was pay his bill to the city. But all those questioned were definitely mad at the mayor...
Andrews played prep school hockey at Hotchkiss. A varsity player his junior and senior years, Andrews did not anticipate playing Division One Hockey. "I wanted to play hockey in college, I wanted to be involved in a program, but I thought I'd be lucky if I had a chance to play varsity my senior year. I wasn't recruited anywhere and when I came to Harvard neither Timmy Taylor (formerly J.V. coach at Harvard and now head coach at Yale) nor Billy Cleary knew I played hockey," Andrews said in an interview last week...
...stands as an object of political antipathy. Such a symbol could stir students of politics to new heights of democratic dissent. Politicians are doomed to forget; the wrath and indignation inspired by a Vorster library would soon cool. In time, "Vorster" might reel off the tongue provoking as little thought of genocide as, say, "Custer...