Word: persons
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...Kirkland Place, a 110-person Quonset hut was constructed and housed new faculty-nursery school teachers for veteran's children. Provost Paul H. Buck made light of the overcrowded facility, saying that the makeshift school had a "waiting list rivaling that of the Committee of Admission of Harvard College...
...Harvard, he says he found himself in a group of classmates with astonishing literary talent, including John Ashbery '49, Kenneth Coch '48 , George Plimpton '48 and Adrienne Rich '51, who turned to be the first person Bly asked to a Radcliffe dance...
...experience and react to music is deeply embedded in the biology of the nervous system. While music tends to be processed mostly in the right hemisphere of the brain, no single set of cells is devoted to the task. Different networks of neurons are activated, depending on whether a person is listening to music or playing an instrument, and whether or not the music involves lyrics...
...colleagues talk frankly with their classes about her illness, emphasizing that even though Mrs. Dillon now has a disability, she is the same person inside that she has always been. On a recent Monday, teacher Shelly Bancroft read David Adler's Lou Gehrig, the Luckiest Man to her fourth-graders, then led a group discussion. Katha Edwards' class, which had read E.B. White's The Trumpet of the Swan, about a bird without a voice, talked about Dillon's muteness. Said a student: "Mrs. Dillon is brave. She has a disease, but she works and works and never gives...
...apparent transformation of New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani from ruthless master of metropolitan machtpolitik into compassionate hybrid of Hamlet, the Duke of Windsor and Graham Greene raises a fascinating question. Can a person really, and I mean fundamentally, change...