Word: balder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington garbage dump. There are a few survivors, notably Professor Mary Ashley, "the opposite of the ugly American," plucked from her Kansas home to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Rumania. Mary attempts to build bridges with the Communists, but "the gods," malevolent figures who use code names like Odin, Balder and Thor, have other plans. Whether agents of decency can triumph over the pantheon is, of course, never in question. The Sheldon brand name guarantees a predictable mix of global gore and paperback psychopathology. Goodness has nothing to do with...
...balder than [Bok] is," said one irreverent freshman, Robyn Fass '90 of Canaday Hall...
...balder than he [Bok] is," said Robyn Fass '90 of Canaday Hall...
...with a bulldozer. In sanctioning the outrage afterward, Marchais declared, "We do not want a new Harlem or a new Soweto in the Paris suburbs." By so nakedly exploiting the immigrant issue, Marchais obviously hoped to increase the Communist vote among lower-class suburbanites. But other leftists put a balder tag on the Communist tactics: "Red fascism." -By Marguerite Johnson...