Word: attending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enjoyed the company of women, of my sisters and family. I love music and used to attend concerts in Alexandria almost every week. How could my heart be filled in lonely isolation? But God kept his promise to me. When I retreated to the desert, God gave me mountains of celestial sympathy. Instead of symphony concerts, I heard celestial music...
Jewett expects about 1575 of the 2152 accepted students to enroll next fall, and he thinks the sex ratio will rise slightly to about 2 to 1 if fewer accepted women choose to attend Harvard, as they traditionally...
Confusion replaces illusion as we discover that there is in fact no white corpse in the flower-bedecked coffin. The actors deliberately offend the court, speaking of urine and filth and foul carrion odors. The Governor soon sputters "we've come to attend our own funeral rites." Throughout all this, something ominously unknown is transpiring offstage: Newport News enters and exists, relaying puzzling messages to the court and cast...
...more to "events" to raise cash. Arlo Guthrie is arranging concerts in 22 cities to drum up $250,000 for the faltering Harris campaign. Other candidates are relying on telethons, rock concerts, breakfasts and dinners to which they try to send their wives or children if they cannot attend themselves. Udall has forced himself to attend as many as three fund-raising parties a night despite being bone-weary from full days of campaigning...
...mildly hallucinatory to attend the Academy Awards for the first time. One flies 3,000 miles to behold the real thing, only to wander onto the set of a long and shapeless parody of the Johnny Carson Show: all has been pre-empted by television, redesigned in terms of the 19-in. screen. The rituals of former years have gone, or at least become so attenuated as to be barely recognizable. In the old days (one remembers from childhood newsreels) the stars used to come out, as they should, at night. Their exits from the black limos would...