Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somewhere along the line I paid my tutor a visit, and found him incredibly depressed. His politics, I had long realized, were not mine--but he was a good guy and he was together and damn smart. And I found him calling radical "criminals" and talking about a wave of "anti-intellectualism" sweeping the University. He pointed out that even some of the most liberal Faculty people in the social sciences had opposed the Heimert resolution, which passed, he said, only with the votes of a lot of biologists and physicists who weren't going to have anything...
October 28: Acting on news of the upcoming Dow recruiting visit, the HUC asked the Chemistry department to open the meeting with Dow representatives to all students. The department replied that it had not fixed any plans for the meeting...
...After considering petitions from graduates and undergraduates who asked for a University-wide open meeting with Dow recruiters, the Chemistry department faculty voted to limit the Dow meeting to graduate students in the department. The department also formally asked Dow to hold off its scheduled November 6 recruiting visit until Harvard could work out the details of the meeting...
...Cambridge, the Harvard Faculty Club also prepared for Truman's visit, setting aside a special suite for the 84-year-old ex-President. Reports that the club had also laid in a supply of "Old Stewart" bourbon (distilled in Bolivar, Mo.) were denied, as a spokesman explained that Truman, because of his advanced age, is no longer able to indulge...
During her latest visit to Illyria, Janet settles down to a pallid little ghost story, only to be distracted by a long overdue awareness of her own insubstantiality. She is also distracted by other guests: an old platonic friend who she discovers is a homosexual, an alcoholic has-been novelist, a professional East Village poet who probably writes off LSD experiences as business trips, and a sexy, uncouth junk-sculptor...