Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the Harvard Debate Council will meet a team from the University of Hawaii in the large auditorium of William James Hall at 8 p.m. tonight to debate the topic "Resolved: The Destiny of the United States Lies in the Pacific...
Rusk also sparred with journalists in Washington and four European capitals on the topic of Viet Nam in an hour-long Meet the Press session that was transmitted by Early Bird satellite. Four times he went up to Capitol Hill for hearings on the war, and despite his well-deserved reputation for wizardry at handling Congressmen, some of the sessions were so grueling that even Buddha-faced Rusk came out looking haggard and upset. Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark after the Foreign Relations Committee had kept Rusk on the griddle for three hours: "The poor...
...Your Essay did a thorough job of covering a touchy subject which most people would rather not even think about, let alone discuss. But more important, you did not stop at a mere examination of the topic. What impressed me was your smashingly direct last paragraph. It seems to me that the word compassion is often misunderstood when used in connection with such problems as the subject of your Essay, or the criminal, or the rebellious teenager. You have cleaned the air with words...
...Haunts and Remote Wildernesses" is valuable not so much for its profundity as for its terrific style and overwhelming argumentation. In fact, this is the first article I've ever read in a Harvard Review that is just plain fun reading, even if you aren't interested in the topic. For example: "Within the court itself, Justice Harlan looks on his colleagues' handiwork with all the enthusiasm of a nun who has caught less pious sisters smuggling men into the convent." And Frank's comment on Frankfurter's Baker v. Carr dissent...
Each year the Committee to Visit the College chooses a different topic for concern and spends a day in Cambridge studying...