Word: expounded
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Opening exercises in Tercentenary theater. The last time you will all assemble in one place before Commencement, as each of the speakers will surely remind you. A real live opportunity to hear the pillars of the Harvard establishment expound on Harvard. Presidents Bok and Horner will welcome you to the company of not-yet-educated men and women. Dean Rosovsky will bring his dry and sometimes stinging wit along to give an address. (His address, by the way, is University Hall...
...Reporter-Researcher Jeanne-Marie North taught English in Medellin, Colombia, and Spanish at a small college in Illinois. Education Writer Kenneth Pierce was a lecturer in humanities at the University of Chicago for three years. "In those days I was torn between teaching and journalism," he says. "I would expound on Aristotle's Poetics in the morning and interview vice-squad detectives as a LIFE reporter in the afternoon." Civia Tamarkin of TIME'S Midwest bureau was a high school English teacher for two years in Benton Harbor, Mich. Indeed, the story itself was first suggested by Tamarkin...
...Matsushita, 85, has long been an outspoken exception. The son of a poor rice dealer, he founded the Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. as a three-person shop in 1918, built it into one of the world's largest producers of consumer electronic goods, and used his prestige to expound opinions on everything from nuclear power (he favors it) to the businessman's role as the servant of society. In 1973 he retired, but only to become more active in other fields. His earnest, upbeat magazine PHP-Peace and Happiness through Prosperity-is Japan's largest-selling monthly...
...policy of the TV programs is not to persuade anybody," says Friedman, but to "make people think in a different way." The shows nonetheless provide the economist with an electronic platform where he can expound his beliefs in less government regulation and controlling the money supply as the key to halting inflation. Each program consists of half an hour of economics-cww-travelogue, followed by another half-hour discussion among Friedman, adversaries like Socialist Michael Harrington or National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator Joan Claybrook and supporters like U.C.L.A. Economist Thomas Sowell...
...have a right to an education." He smiles some more when he describes how the society is spreading the good word: the speakers bureau is the second largest in the country(only Sports Illustrated's is bigger) and schedule people like ex-Marine hero Lewis Millett to expound the society line on grueling month-long tours of duty...