Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of the members of last year's visiting committee concur. C. McKim Norton, for examples, who has served on the committee on and off since the mid '50s, noted that many of the criticisms leveled at CRP are in areas that might bar the department from receiving recognition...
Escape, the philosophers say, is a major theme of human existence. Man is constantly trying "to get away from it all, but somehow never makesit any farther than the Cape, the Jersey Shore or the corner bar. Life's grip is too tight; escape from the mundane constraints of reality requires creativity, daring or foolhardiness. Perhaps that is why there are escape artists...
Prague's prosecutors presented no proof to substantiate the charge that manuscripts smuggled abroad had ended up in the hands of the CIA. In lieu of evidence, the prosecution referred to a bar of chocolate that Lederer's daughter had supposedly received from the CIA. After deliberating 1½ days, the court meted out 3½ years to Ornest, three years to Lederer, suspended sentences to Havel and Pavliċek. Said Havel: "It was a dress rehearsal for trials of many other signers of the Charter...
There is now a bar in place of the famed Round Table where Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and other wits from The New Yorker used to dine and quip during the '20s. But that seemed to suit the crowd just fine at last week's 75th birthday party for the Algonquin Hotel. The clubby bastion of New York literati was the site of a noisy celebration for 200 guests including Humorist S.J. Perelman, Actors Kevin McCarthy and Maureen Stapleton and Cartoonist Charles Addams. "You better feel witty before you enter the place; if not, just listen," cautioned Author...
Jackson, who had battled (and once nearly come to blows) with Billy Martin during the season-with his arm around Martin after the final game victory: "I'll tell you, nobody better catch Billy Martin and me in a bar together and try to give us some crap. We'll be hell together...