Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Class of 1936, celebrating its 25th Reunion, met yesterday in a reception at Harkness Commons. Warmup activities for children of all ages last night included entertainment for junior at Hunt Hall, a square dance for intermediates at the Browne and Nichols School, and an informal dance at Eliot House for the senior sons and daughters...
Incidents involing Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hitler's foreign press secretary, brought students closer to the oppressive realities of the Thirties. Hanfstaengl was first chosen a class marshal for his 25th reunion, but he himself declined to serve after protest came from many quarters. Near the end of the year he again embarrassed Harvard by offering a student's scholarship to be used at a German university. The Hitler lieutenant made a similar offer two years later, only to be repulsed again. By this time Harvard opinion was solidly behind President Conant...
...Call on Kuprin (by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee; based on Maurice Edelman's novel) tells of an American journalist (Jeffrey Lynn) who, while vacationing in Moscow, seeks out his former Ohio astronomy professor (George Voskovec), now the greatest of Soviet scientists. What begins as a mere reunion turns, at the behest of the U.S. embassy, into an appeal to Scientist Kuprin to escape to America. What begins as an appeal turns, through the vigilance of the U.S.S.R., into some brisk spy-and-counterspy hanky-panky. At the end Kuprin, caught out, swears to stay permanently...
...unable to deliver the message in person but would have done so if I could have attended my twentieth reunion...
...idealistic La Fayette got himself appointed a major general in the Revolutionary forces and, without bothering to send word to the pregnant Adrienne, set sail to bring freedom to North America. Five years later, he returned a hero, and Adrienne was so overcome that she fainted at their reunion. Scarcely pausing to bring her round, he eagerly went into politics, called for a constitutional monarchy, and hung the U.S. Bill of Rights on his wall with an empty frame beside it, explaining to visitors: "It is intended to contain a similar document for France." On July 11, 1789, La Fayette...