Word: yesterday
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Dean Bundy and J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, were among seven who received honorary degrees at Commencement exercises at Oberlin College yesterday...
Eight outstanding alumni were elected to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa yesterday for their achievements in education, business, law, and letters...
...shock-haired (Robert Kennedy). The Rank and File had more than its share of walking, talking cliches, was clearly less concerned with presenting moving characters than with characterizing a movement. But if nothing else, it succeeded in dramatizing the breathtaking reversal of political fortunes that transformed, in one generation, yesterday's picket-line victims into today's labor masters...
...times Packard is patently misinformed, as when he asserts that class structures are more flexible in Britain than in the U.S., and he over-sentimentalizes the American past, suggesting that only yesterday Horatio Alger was king. "Status striving" to him seems to be a modern menace, and he writes of it with scant mention of Thorstein ("conspicuous consumption") Veblen or of the massive, fascinating and often exhilarating social climbs described by Balzac, Stendhal, Jane Austen...
...BEFORE YESTERDAY (478 pp.)-Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.-Double...