Word: america
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Please, oh please, Harvard, listen to my pleas. Where other Harvard institutions have fallen--Wellesley women, the Porcellian Club, and expungement--do not force Pinocchio's to follow suit. What Mom's apple pie is to America R.F. D., what Walt Disney is to puerile pubescents, and what cocaine is to the Studio 54 crowd--Pinocchio's pizza is to me. Fair Harvard, can't you grant one last wish to an embittered senior, before he ventures off into that frozen wasteland, that tasteless tundra, of Gino's shake 'n bake pizza...
...Campus Crusaders are one of the strongest independent teams in North America. Last year they defeated the Soviet National Team and recently lost to the reigning World Champions, Yugoslavia, by only three points...
...almost meaningless. From this comes a disorder and low morale among those committed to the humanities that is in contrast with the discipline and order of the scientific camp. The real cause of the decline no doubt lies well beyond Harvard, in the steady evolution of America away from Europe and the apparently terminal crisis of European culture, and it will not be reversed by changes in teaching policy. But even allowing for those larger forces, I don't think Harvard does a very good job of presenting the non-scientific culture of Europe to its undergraduates...
...based economy into a modern industrial state. Northern Italians have watched that transformation: the grandparents belong to a rural world, a preindustrial way of life that had continued almost unchanged for centuries and centuries. Their grandchildren are grewing up in a society that is in many aspects indistinguishable from America...
Khalaf said the Palestinians had told Iranian authorities they "believe America cannot be fought through occupation of its embassy, but rather through serious and radical confrontation...