Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still vulnerable, and went to the Thon to feel five again), but something about it was threatening, the way masked figures are at a roc concert where violence and ugliness are very near--painted faces leering as if to say that this gathering is a drug that will alter things so that you won't know who you are or who your friends are or what the world...
...report on Harvard and Radcliffe admissions last week proposed the inevitable: the two schools should adopt a sex-blind admissions policy "as soon as practical", meaning next year. Such a policy would probably not immediately alter the current ratio of 2.5 men to every woman, because fewer women apply. Harvard President Derek Bok and Radcliffe President Matina Horner issued a joint statement saying that the major recommendations of the report "seem to us to have great merit." The proposals still have to be approved by the faculty and trustees. But some Harvard officials and alumni are worried about the long...
...sequences; mysterious acrobatic tumbles are used to convey Oblio's long fall down through the Point of No Return. Like this last one, there are a number of excellent ideas that are either lost in overly cautious execution, or cut off when they've hardly begun. The opportunity to alter the emphasis of the show and adapt it more to a stage performance possibly making it really unique, has been passed...
...ball disappeared into the side pocket. As he paused for his new challenger to rack the balls, I lit up a cigarette. "Don't you ever worry before you smoke a cigarette that it may do something to you?" he asked. "I'm always a little afraid it will alter my senses, put me a little bit out of control. For years I had this shaky bow arm. All I did was worry about whether I could ever pull a smooth bow. I was terrified that I would never be steady. So if I smoked I'd be afraid...
...fixture as before; the magazine's makeup remained unaltered. The glittering Van-Cleef & Arpels brooches, the Boehm porcelains, the Rolls-Royces and Mercedes still whispered their seductions from the sidelines. But, incongruously, in the columns that threaded between these celebrations of richesse were books that would permanently alter their audience: Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, Carson's Silent Spring, Commoner's The Closing Circle, Arendt's Eichmann...