Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Business. When U. Mass. Provost (now Chancellor) Oswald Tippo approached him about heading the ed school, Allen boldly "asked for everything." To his shock, he got virtual carte blanche−and has used it with characteristic gusto. Draping his portly form in custom-tailored African shirts and guzzling low-calorie colas, Dean Allen first set out to whip up a graduate school. Foundations and the Federal Government agreed with his goal, came up with nearly $4,000,000. Allen raised faculty salaries to as much as $33,000 a year, signed on historians and economists as well as education professors...
...Backgammon Book by Oswald Jacoby and John R. Crawford. Illustrated. 224 pages. Viking. $10. Though it is illustrated with the customary attractive leaves from medieval manuscripts and Flemish paintings, this is a no-nonsense text on one of the world's most ancient and alluring dice games. Instructions and diagrams are clear. There are good sections on probabilities and such popular variations of the game as acey-deucy and chouette. Still this is one gift book that will get off the coffee table and onto the gaming board...
...best a scholar can do now is assert that tomorrow's weather will be much the same as today's, then the intellectual in such a setting is dead and in his place civilized mysticism and astrological superstition will flourish most luxuriantly. Here one is not being merely speculative. Oswald Spengler-another famous twentieth-century cynical historian-veers dangerously close to this position. In the second volume of The Decline of the West he wrote that "The regular periodicity of certain events is yet another indication that the cosmic surgings in the form of human life on a small planet...
...considered scholars, and, unless there is a strong overriding reason for keeping them, they are not likely to remain on the list when it is again reduced next week. Three university presidents, for instance-Friday, Gilman, and Hester-have been administrators almost exclusively for the last ten years. John Oswald, vice-president of the University of California, may have been a distinguished scholar inplant pathology when he was chairman of his department in the fifties, but that kind of scholarship would not evoke any widespread sympathy...
...lived in a tough neighborhood that was periodically invaded by Oswald Mosley's fascist bullyboys. Pinter remembers that as an adolescent, he had to run a gauntlet of broken milk bottles thrust menacingly at him. Not surprisingly, the boy's imagination was permeated by the Nazi massacre of the Jews. The threatened knock at the door, with the certainty of horrible punishment for an uncommitted crime, was a sound of terror in his mind before he ever recorded it on the stage...