Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writing theses. And thesis watching has fast become one of America's great spectator sports. There is nothing like the thrill of watching a well-trained athlete laying into the typewriter and coming up with incredible insights that could earn him honors (the thrill of victory) or, with some bad luck, no distinction (the agony of defeat...
Student Participation: Lastly, the core proposal totally neglects student participation on the core committees. It was bad enough that we were left out of the writing of the proposal itself. We feel that students would make significant contributions to these committees and, therefore, should be given appropriate participation...
...heroism and the foolishness that may be attendant upon genius. She tells of her endless "female tantrums," provoked by Pasternak's determination not to leave his wife and children but to maintain two households instead. To these outbursts the writer often responded, "this is something out of a bad novel." "I suppose I longed for recognition and wanted people to envy me," Ivinskaya explains in a characteristically unsparing passage...
...among fellow smokers by regularly offering a plausible reason for a recess, even though all he really wanted was a cigarette. Once, when he was representing Mitchell, Judge John Sirica angrily threatened to clear the courtroom after an outburst of laughter. Deadpanned Hundley, whose client was having a particularly bad day: "How do you feel about crying, Judge?" Spectators roared, and Sirica relaxed...
...Mitchell hired him. But the two got along well. When Nixon's current Washington attorney, Herbert J. Miller, was unable to represent Nixon in the so-called Kissinger wiretap case, he passed the assignment along to Hundley. One of Hundley's six children protested: "Representing Mitchell was bad enough, but defending Nixon is embarrassing us at school." The dilemma was resolved after a few months when the Justice Department took over Nixon's defense...