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...verdict from Hanover was far from clear. Dartmouth had either met a Brown team of surprising vigor, or the Indians had suffered an off-day in beating the Bruins 14-7. The other possibility-that Dartmouth isn't really all that powerful this year-was considered, but temporarily dropped. "Dartmouth always has a good squad," said Yovicsin. "This year Brown does...
...stopped two undergraduates and inquired what the building was used for. They said it was the Health Center. Then I was sure the designer had been right in investing the structure with vitality and even exuberance. We left Cambridge glad that Harvard was still alive and showed its vigor in the creative new architecture. For many weeks, while teaching at Yale, I remembered the building as a fine contribution to the scene in Cambridge...
Understandably, Reischauer regrets the degree to which his job has curtailed his scholarly pursuits, but he has seized the challenge which the Ambassadorship offers with delight and, in the Kennedy tradition, vigor. In the two years and three months he has been in Japan, Reischauer, who speaks Japanese fluently, reads Chinese, and speaks French and German "to get by with at cocktail parties," has journeyed to 27 of the 46 prefectures in Japan. As if apologizing for his failure to have visited all of them, he points out that trips outside Tokyo involve such gruelling schedules, "you can only stand...
...nice round retirement number, he thundered: "I'll not give up my temper. I'll not give up my passions. I've enjoyed them far too much to put them away. I'll not give up my prejudices, the very foundation of my strength and vigor." When a new acting managing editor was hired for the Daily Express in 1961, the proprietor had ionic characteristic advice: "Passion. That's the thing. I don't care what you put in the paper," he said, "so long as you say it with passion...
Understandably, Reischauer regrets the degree to which has job has curtailed his scholarly pursuits, but he has seized the challenge which the Ambassadorship offers with delight and, in the Kennedy tradition, vigor. In the two years and three months he has been in Japan, Reischauer, who speaks Japanese fluently, reads Chinese, and speaks enough French and German "to get by with at cocktail parties," has journeyed to 27 of the 46 prefectures in Japan. As if apologizing for his failure to have visited all of them, he adds that thanks to the gruelling schedules trips outside Tokyo involve...