Word: asked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gordimer says she foresaw political harassment over Burger's Daughter, her most political novel to date. She included in the text of the novel a banned document from the Soweto riots in 1976. "I took certain liberties and I was afraid the government would ask themselves was she one of them? (Communists). She must have had access to early documents, perhaps...
Geoffrey did not ask where the money came from, as he did not pry into his father's suspect background. The stakes were too high. As a child he based his own legitimacy on his father's identity; if his father did not exist, neither did he. So, he blindly trotted off to Harvard-Yale games with father, who rooted passionately, "as though he had a stake in its outcome." Duke even went so far as to buy English bulldogs to suggest his connection with Old Eli. Despite gaping holes in the Ivy League story--a friend once hailed Duke...
...cynics ask, "How? Give us a method." In the aftermath, the analysts are looking for practical applications. And the pontiff did leave his listeners with a "method," a highly impractical method which few modern men take seriously beyond the Bible--an impractical method for the most impractical of all things: life...
...awakened the President to tell him of Rabin's preliminary response. I urged him to defer a decision and to call a meeting of his senior advisers for 7:30 in the morning. But Nixon soon called back and said: "I have decided it. Don't ask anybody else. Tell him [Rabin...
...women armed with indestructible shakers would do wonders for the sometimes-reserved football crowds. Niki Janus, associate athletic director, says the committee members agreed to underwrite a cheerleading squad after they got sick of hearing alumni complain that Harvard was the only Ivy League college without cheerleaders. "People would ask me, 'What is this? How can the (athletic) department let this go on?'" Janus remembers. Varsity crew members traditionally lead cheers at the game, but alumni wanted something "more structured," Janus explains. The crew team, like the band, believed they were too cool for structure. They "just plowed around, throwing...