Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficulty in Barry's early narrative is his feeble pseudo-Freudian attempt to explain Aurore Dupin's later adoption of a "male" personality--George Sand. Shortly before her father's death, she was dressed in a military uniform like her father's. "Not yet four, not yet George Sand, she had found her costume, that of a male," Barry writes. He describes several other childhood incidents: the secret games she played with her imaginary personal god (her first fictional creation), a male who was dressed as a female for special rites; her mourning grandmother calling...
Ruth Colker '78, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and a member of the committee, said last night another one of the group's immediate objectives is to attempt to save the women's program at the Divinity School, the only such program at Harvard...
...said the University is proposing to abolish the program in an attempt to save money...
...University-wide policy establishing guidelines for employees on bad weather days is expected to be released soon in an attempt to coordinate the policies of Harvard's various schools...
...Thou shalt not schedule any courses that meet at lunchtime or have a Saturday exam. Hey, you gotta (at least make the attempt to) eat, and I don't care what they say, Friday night is still Friday night, exam period or no exam period. Which just happens to eliminate Mondays at 10 and 12 (once a week is enough for most people, anyway...