Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right to know what the CIA was doing on campus, and Dean Howard Hiatt took it on the chin from the faculty at the School of Public Health, who wanted to know a bit more about how things got done at their own school. The CIA gave Bok the brush-off and Hiatt settled himself down for a bruising power struggle that would determine the direction the school would take in trying to modernize itself. Still, it was late summer, and the woes of bureaucracy held no spark, no charm. Registration was too close...
...receptive as any on the scheduled tour. Only in these places, in small takes, can the visitor fight free of Instamatic Blur. He/she will not begin to understand China; even the Chinese do not profess to understand China. However, by osmosis and ingestion one can return home with vivid brush strokes on the mind...
...society more aware of minority rights than ever, that demand is hard to brush aside. Many Hispanic spokesmen speak of "linguistic liberation" and argue that failure to provide bilingual education amounts to "cultural colonization" by the majority angles. Others say that failure to provide bilingual instruction guarantees that most Hispanic children will fall hopelessly behind in classwork...
...actors who are presenting eight of his one-act plays, including The Zoo Story and The American Dream, on a 35-week tour of U.S. and Canadian universities. For parts of the tour Albee plans to be on hand. But actors, beware. The director has a ready brush-off. "When there is a question," he jokes, "I say I'll take it up with the writer...
...they have surely done is to give a fierce rivalry a new lease on life in California. Since the Giants are young and fast, they are likely to be going at the Dodgers full tilt for years. However the wrenching, grueling pennant drive turns out, there are plenty of brush-'em-back pitches, spikes-high slides into second, empty-the-dugout confrontations and plain, hard baseball ahead...