Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, imbued with that courageous spirit which characterized the Harvard undergraduate in the days before the recent ruling. I elected to write as Honors thesis. Alas, the topic got too big to handle; the soft green of the pool table suddenly appeared irresistable. Less than a week before the thesis was due I gave it up and quickly got back to my neglected course work. AS a result game fish though I was, 11.5 honor grades notwithstanding. I received no Cum Laudo but only the shaft. Which was, of course, exactly what I had earned...
...teams debated this year's national inter-collegiate topic: "Resolved, That the non-Communist nations of the world should establish an economic community...
...Wall, this sort of cumulative indictment might have evoked sage nods and won its author a reputation for fearless thinking. But to a cold war-scarred world, a man who cannot tell the difference between Russia and the U.S. seems too unhinged to be tellingly cogent on any other topic. As criticism, it seems a bit like the officer who stops in the midst of battle to dress down a soldier for failing to shave...
While in Boston this week he is forming similar seminars on neo-colonialism at Brandeis and Simmons. Seminars on the topic are also being formed at four other colleges in New England...
...topic of the lecture is "United Nations Activities: an Analysis of Potentialities." A U.N. delegate since 1954, Mrs. Rossel was the first woman to head an official U.N. delegation...