Word: carleton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parents I know, or I'm supposed to know about higher education, and I say to them, given what you want out of college, and the fact that you're going on to med school or law school or grad school, you would be better off in Swarthmore or Carleton or Amherst or any number of liberal arts colleges than to come here...
Inspired by the famed Palm House of England's Royal Botanic Gardens, the conservatory's 90-ft.-high dome and ten interconnecting pavilions cover nearly an acre. Within that glass palace, Horticulturist Carleton Lees has created what he calls "a living museum so that people can see what the real world was like in the past." After all, he explains, "we're more related to these things than we are to the automobile. They live and breathe like...
...academic field found it virtually impossible to win two openings in the same discipline at the same college. Invariably, one spouse (traditionally the wife) was forced to find work in another field or on a different campus. But in 1970 Michael Zuckert, then 28 and a political theorist at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., asked for a leave of absence to finish his dissertation. Carleton had a counterproposal: Why not temporarily fill the seat with Michael's wife Catherine, a fellow political-science graduate of Cornell University and the University of Chicago? Catherine took over and, when Michael returned, began...
...DIED. Carleton King, 73, New York Congressman who represented fashionable Saratoga Springs (1960-74); following surgery; in Bradenton, Fla. A conservative from a district he described as "died-in-the-wool Republican," he called for an across-the-board income tax of at least 25% and endorsed phone tapping in the interests of national security. "I think it's high time some people were watched," he once said in response to criticism of J. Edgar Hoover...
...make each line or attitude multilevel," Martin explains. "Each word is expressed with my entire body. I feel like I'm living the joke." And killing his audiences. Martin says he is looking for "cat handcuffs." His tabby-a tiger-stripe he calls Dr. Carleton P. Forbes-has amassed $3,000 worth of "cat toys" by filching checks from Steve's mailbox. But alas, Dr. Forbes has escaped ... to Catalina. On a catamaran. Audiences invariably groan as this inventive tale turns into mushy vaudeville. Wide-eyed pause. "You think comedy is ... pretty?" leers Martin. He catches them catnapping...