Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nancy Reagan, meanwhile, will leave her traveling companion for a side trip to Italy to pursue her antidrug crusade. On Friday she will attend a luncheon in her honor at the Quirinale palace and then pay a call on a residential drug-treatment center outside Rome. The next day she will have a private audience with the Pope to discuss drug abuse, followed by a tour of the * Pauline and Sistine chapels. She is scheduled to return to Bonn in time for the summit's windup dinner on Saturday night...
...disgusted that the Conservative Club chose to honor a representative of the universally abhorred South African government at a luncheon, and we are angered that contrary to earlier promises made by the Conservative Club president, the post-luncheon discussion was not open to people who wished to attend (the protesters stated that they did not intend to disrupt the speaker...
...appeal of drugs, beyond the immediate physical sensation, is that they give one a license to be irresponsible. One is part of a spectacle, and it is permitted to break things, to scream, and to say "I love you" without consequence. When we attend a spectacular divestment rally and applaud the speakers who bash Harvard and Derek Bok the hardest, we aren't being irresponsible, rather the reverse. It is only when we go home and turn to more pressing concerns that we become irresponsible, because we go back to being that very Harvard we were bashing a few hours...
...sitting on the beach building sand castles or reading on the porch with her mother. Soon, the exoticism of the yarmulkas, the Sabbath rituals and the dietary restrictions, attract Ilana and draw her near so that when she returns to Brooklyn in the fall she begins to secretly attend synagogue with the Dinns. Her father's trip to Spain to cover the by-now raging civil war makes her clandestine observance that much easier...
...Students in the pursuit of literary merit and fame, and to excite in their breasts a noble spirit of emulation there shall be annually a public examination, in the preference of a joint committee of the Corporation and Overseers and such other gentlemen as may be inclined to attend it," a 1790 law reads...