Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holds an honorary doctorate from Harvard, will be replaced, after forty-eight years in his post, by William P. Bundy, Yale '39, the former deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs, now a consultant to M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies. This change of management at the upper level is indicative of the criticism most frequently made of Foreign Affairs: that its only function is to serve as an apologist for the foreign policy establishment. Currently, the magazine's editorial board includes such well known State Department names as MacGeorge Bundy, George Kennan, John J. McCloy, and President Nixon...
...number of men living at Radcliffe will increase next year from 365 to 375. The remaining 660 spaces will be divided about equally between freshman women and upper-class women...
From Charles Eliot Norton's art lectures at Harvard, she learned of John Ruskin- his exultation of the natural and living architecture. Thus today, her grand home in the Fenway overflows with spring flowers every year- orange nasturtiums cascade from the upper stories into the sky-lighted courtyard splashed with daffodils, orchids, and lillies...
Quaint Expression. The taxi industry is maintaining a stiff upper meter. According to Arthur Gore, publisher of the trade sheet Taxi News, "It is only a question of time before people come round." But with the imminence of summer, traditionally a slack season anyway, drivers aren't so sure. "I drove all the way from Wall Street to the East Side without a fare today," lamented Max Fuchs. "With a situation like this, I feel like getting loaded...
Readers of '20s Columnist Don Marquis sometimes found his space occupied by the work of archy, a lowly lower-case friend, archy never had the strength to depress the upper-case key, and his punctuation was atonal in any key. It was understandable; though he had been a "vers libre bard" before his death, his soul had transmigrated into the body of an ambitious cockroach. It was assumed that archy died again along with his creator...