Word: lasky
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Increasingly, university life impinged on public affairs and vice versa. When prominent alumni were infuriated by young Lecturer Harold Laski's vocal support of a Boston police strike in 1919, Lowell said, "If the overseers ask for Laski's resignation, they will get mine...
Long ago when I was a student in England, I went to [Economist] Harold Laski for advice about my studies. He said, "Young woman, if you want to amount to something you had better start on your own life right now-if you tag along with your father you won't be able to do anything else." But there doesn't seem to be any choice, in the sense that I felt my father's loneliness so intensely, and I felt also that whatever I amounted to, or whatever satisfaction I got from my own work, would...