Word: brinton
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Republican Convention in 1940. Rockefeller encouraged the rumors by inviting all 2,662 convention delegates and alternates to a dance this week at the Sheraton-Towers. And he did nothing to suppress the busy draft-Rockefeller movement organized by San Francisco Lawyer William M. Brinton?not even when Brinton put out a Nixon-can't-win-in-November poll showing Nixon lagging far behind Kennedy in New York, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois and Texas...
...desperation," Lowell finally endowed the society out of his own pocket, "although it took nearly all I had." (It took $1,500,000.) Last week the impressive return on Lowell's investment was totted up in a proud report by the society's chairman, History Professor Crane Brinton...
Ideal School. Society Chronicler Brinton is quick to concede that the Fellows might have done just as well without going to Harvard, and nobody can be sure if the twice-weekly lunches and once-weekly dinners (preceded by scholarly sherry) in Eliot House have really broadened the minds of already brilliant men. "Frankly, the society does not turn out Renaissance polymaths," says Brinton. "But something rubs off from one Fellow on another." The mixing of many disciplines avoids the free-form excesses of latter-day academic brainstorming, remains a memorable experience to most former Fellows. Says...
Films of some of the major revolutions of the 20th century will dramatize "The Anatomy of Revolution," which Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, will teach as an extension course this Spring over WGBH...
...course, based on Brinton's book of the same title, will be illustrated with films of the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, the Russian Revolution, the Hungarian Uprising, and the Cuban revolt...