Word: adept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yells, "Police brutality!"; and, soon after, he calls Armado a "Fascist Hindu!" Jaquenetta herself (Zoe Kamitses) turns out to be a yellow-stockinged blonde in a red and purple miniskirt, with sunglasses perched on her head and a transistor radio glued to her ear. Later she proves adept at swinging her hips and popping bubble gum on the downbeat...
Entering freshmen find plenty to complain about here: Union food, strict parietal hours, expos. Bv the spring most are reconciled to the quality of the meals; adept at sneaking girls into their dorm, but still a bit resentful of expository writing...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, takes a chip off the old Bard to construct a neo-Elizabethan existentialist drama. Brian Murray and John Wood are extremely adept as Tom Stoppard's nether heroes of flashing wit but blinking comprehension...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, takes a chip off the old Bard to construct a neo-Elizabethan existentialist drama. Brian Murray and John Wood are adept as Tom Stoppard's netherheroes of flashing wit but blinking comprehension...
What have they left behind? Two U.S. Public Health Service psychiatrists, who surveyed 232 Haight denizens, found three clusters: kids, beards and toughs. The "lost youth" are younger, less adept. Says a free-clinic nurse: "There are more misfits now, more who can't make it." The "Haight types," with beards and beads, were found to have been disenchanted enough to "split to a Zen monastery." As for the "indigenous-leadership cluster," Methedrine addicts have replaced the work-oriented Diggers and driven them...