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Word: amherst (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard men's lacrosse team simply got tired to losing to top-ranked teams. All three of the laxmen's defeats were at the hands of teams rated among the top 15 in the country. So when they headed to Amherst to face fifth-ranked UMass yesterday afternoon, they were determined not to let this be number four...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Laxmen Dump UMass, 12-8 | 4/29/1982 | See Source »

This is a delightful play of verbal dexterity. As one character puts it. "You really are amusing when you are determined to be witty at all costs." But these are clearly the chosen few. Hell, if most preps were half this entertaining, we'd all be at Amherst...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: Preps at Play | 4/23/1982 | See Source »

...AMHERST--Two men were convicted last month of the 1981 rape of a University of Massachusetts undergraduate and were sentenced to 18 years at a medium-security prison in Concord...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Rapists Sentenced | 4/10/1982 | See Source »

Brutus may pay for his outspokenness. A professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, III, since 1970 and a visiting professor at Amherst this year, he now faces deportation by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). After years of tireless activism, the man whom a defector from the South African secret police labelled as one of the 20 most effective opponents of the apartheid government may be cast back into the arms of his former oppressors. But this is not the first time he has come into conflict with government authorities...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz and Jonathan G. Cedarbaum, S | Title: A Poet Against Apartheid | 3/24/1982 | See Source »

...vodka and Fresca. In a duel of social proprieties, a daughter defies her mother's edict that she attend a dance that will enhance her status in the Junior League and opts to attend a performance of Saint Joan with her spinster aunt. Still later, as an Amherst student photographs his aunt's chinaware in the room, he tells her that he is doing an anthropology paper on "the eating habits of vanishing cultures" and that her crystal finger bowls symbolize "a neurotic obsession with cleanliness associated with the guilt of the last stages of capitalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Decline of the Wasp | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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