Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems unbelievable that such astute and high-placed gentlemen as Galbraith, Kennedy, Lodge and Catton would join a club without knowing its principles and policies...
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...President Pusey's report may have given some readers the impression that my last report on Harvard admissions was critical of present admission policy, critical that is, of what is now being done by my successor, Dean Glimp, and the current Admission & Scholarship Committee. I owe it to these gentlemen, for whom I have the greatest respect and sympathy, to make it entirely clear that I was not, directly or indirectly, criticizing them. In fact, since my report was written in the fall of 1960, before any students had been admitted by the Admission Committee under Dean Glimp's leadership...
Friends & Traitors. In Officers and Gentlemen the old Waugh savagery makes mincemeat of the Halberdiers. Trimmer, the cowardly leader of a commando raid that was organized for publicity purposes, is puffed into a phony hero and sent on a tour of factories to bolster civilian mo rale. Guy and a group of fellow commandos are sent on an operation in Crete, where three of them desert (including the commanding officer), and one Waugh original known as Ludovic murders two of his comrades-in-arms...
Beyond Duty. When Officers and Gentlemen was published in 1955, Waugh announced that he had changed his mind about the trilogy and would let the two books stand as a unit. He wrote a strange, apparently autobiographical account of a bout of hallucination and irrationality, titled The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (TIME, Aug. 12, 1957), and in 1960, he published the biography of Britain's late, literary Msgr. Ronald Knox. But the third book was only waiting. "He took the pile of manuscript, his unfinished novel, from the drawer and glanced through it," he wrote on the last page...