Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roger Twibell, sports director at WBZTV then introduced last night's guest speaker, Al McGuire. With his colorful and unorganized shoot-from-the-hip style, McGuire offered the crowd a varied but blunt lesson in day-to-day big-time athletic philosophy...
Peace through strength. There is a mockery in that equation. "We build up and build up," said John Kennedy one melancholy evening, "then somebody is going to use them. That is the lesson of history...
...loss to John Kennedy was greatly influenced by the scenes from that famous first televised debate. Nixon was recovering from a staph infection, and his gray visage was transmogrified into a haggard, glowering, shifty-eyed mask by the same cameras that broadcast a fresh, vigorous Kennedy. Nixon learned the lesson and in his second race, as Joe McGinniss documents in The Selling of the President, he paid much attention to such minutiae as makeup and stage gestures. Said the candidate to one TV cue man: "Now when you give me the 15-second cue, give it to me right under...
...minutes later. Picking up again her main themes of the constricting conditions of class, sex and race and their effect on writers, she apparently thought she was losing people's attention. Weary of the vertiginous heights of the merely abstract, she decided to provide everyone with a small object lesson: she inclined her head towards me and said pointedly in voice too loud for the tiny room, "And you for example, your people wouldn't have been able to come to Harvard three or four generations ago..." The less sophisticated members of the group couldn't resist the impulse...
...real lesson emerging out of the administration of universities in the turbulent '60s is that those decisions the executives backed off from and failed to make too often turned out to be the most dangerous and unwise decisions they made. What makes our work so interesting is that we are not above or beyond the fray. Indeed, in so many compelling ways, the modern university is in the eye of its society's hurricane. Dr. William M. Birenbaum President, Antioch University