Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BOSTON residents who demonstrated in front of President Bok's office last Wednesday, claiming that Harvard should double what it now pays to the City of Boston, did not themselves represent a substantial political force. But they raised an issue that merits a serious and carefully thought-out response from University administrators--something more than the ducking-out tactics Harvard officials have displayed so far in avoiding meetings with the group...
...convince his reluctant wife and time to work out a resignation letter with Lawyer Clifford. Jordan was relieved. On Wednesday the end unfolded rapidly but painfully for both Carter and Lance. Lance telephoned the President in the morning, reporting that LaBelle was still adamantly opposed to the resignation. She thought her husband had gained wide support and had fully vindicated himself. Carter asked Bert and LaBelle to come and see him. They did so at 1:15 p.m., staying for 45 minutes. The President told LaBelle that however reluctantly, he had to conclude that Bert's decision to resign...
...decision. Furious, Ronnie exiled the stubborn boy of 16 to the University of Bern. There David's gift for mimicry and his cassette-recorder ear made him a quick study of foreign tongues. Within a year he had delved into German letters and discovered new modes of expression and thought. "You might say," he claims, "that I rather belatedly developed a second soul...
After completing another spy novel, A Small Town in Germany?also underrated by critics?the author attempted a "serious" work, The Naive and Sentimental Lover. The knowledgeable thought it a roman à clef, a riposte to Some Gorgeous Accident, written by Cornwell's close friend, the late novelist James Kellavar. Both books concerned misadventures of two men in love with the same woman. Lover had not a belted trench-coat in sight?and the book proved the sole bomb of the Le Carré career. It also coincided with the end of the Cornwell marriage. "Like all divorces, it was awful...
Harvard stuck to its original intentions, but Restic provide the following post-mortem. "I thought we would run a little more effectively to the outside," he said. "The thing that exasperated me was that they threw on us long. What will give people a problem from now on is when we alternate the shotgun with our regular offense once Buckley gets adjusted so they won't be able to put in extra defensive backs...