Word: brande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Chronicle--Here we have a brand-spanking new paper, which published its first three issues last spring. It represents the libertarian political viewpoints. The four-to six-page issues have an amazingly odd range of material in them, mostly denouncing something or other as a threat to individual liberties and so on. Its future is unclear, but it's interesting to watch, even if the writing in it is something short of lucid...
There are outrageously beautiful facilities, like the brand new Blodgett Pool and the track hall, and then there's a place called the Indoor Athletic Building (IAB). If you're interested in Medieval Studies as a possible major, the IAB should be your first stop--it's Harvard's only standing example of the architecture of the Middle Ages...
...inform them that the absolute deadline for parental departure is right after dinner. That way, you can bilk yet another free meal out of them (this will become the basis of your relationship with them for the next four years) and they can spend time with their baby, their brand new Ivy League genius. Warn them that if they don't depart by them a gignatic parentvacuum tours the Yard at 9 p.m. If your parents weren't here to begin with or they've already taken the hint and taken off, find yourself some lunch and maybe go shopping...
...nemesis (he has a .342 career average against Los Angeles). The fourth game went into extra innings. The Giants stayed alive on a hit by aging Superstar Willie McCovey, indestructible and still explosive at 40, and carried to victory and a renewed fingernail grip on first place by a brand new hero, 22-year-old Born-Again Christian Rightfielder Jack Clark. Said Clark, after singling home the winning run in the eleventh inning: "This was to prove to the Dodgers and the rest of the league that we're for real...
...THINGS left to us from the generally stagnant era of English history called the Restoration is Restoration comedy. Playwrights such as Congreve, Vanbrugh and William Wyncherly fashioned a brand of theatrical social satire using the raw materials afforded by courtly foppery and greed and the devil-take-all decadence of the urban upper classes. Relying heavily on wit, bawdry, and ludicrously fashioned images, these plays were often quite vicious in their criticism of London society despite the fact that many of the playwrights were a part of the madhouse themselves...