Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This list, of course, is not exhaustive. In addition, many may object that the best winter sport of all is noticeably absent. Sources tell me, however, that some kind of partner is usually needed for this one, so I had to leave it out. Stay warm, stay healthy...
...that's bad news for the budget administrators, who view the empty beds as lost tuition, room and board revenue. How much the absent students are costing the Faculty is unclear, but University Treasurer George F. Putnam '49 said this week he thinks the impact could be "definite and negative...
...version, for example, the relationship between Miss Lonelyhearts and his sweetheart Betty--which assumes a far more central role than in the novel--is transformed into a typical 50s romance, while Shrike, Miss Lonelyhearts' misanthropic boss, becomes too intrusively a father figure. Worst of all are Teichmann's omissions. Absent from his script are many of West's most pungent passages; missing too are several key incidents which suggest that Miss Lonelyhearts' real impulse in the face of suffering is to destroy the sufferer--a notion which West insists on but which comes across only indirectly in the play...
...warnings charge Holcomb with excessive absenteeism and with disrupting an employees' meeting. Holcomb says he was legitimately sick on the days he was absent and that the meeting he is charged with disrupting was actually one he organized...
...usual horseing around has been conspicuously absent the last few days. Clearly the importance of today's battle with Brown has made its impression on each Harvard player...