Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second crew saw a bunch of Radcliffe women without their shirts [having handed them over to Princeton after the loss] and they just went out and beat the hell out of them." Baker said...
...their assistants, who are often regarded by veteran politicians as arrogant, inexperienced and selfishly protective of the President. Noting that some members of the White House staff seem to be enmeshed in the Watergate affair, one Republican Senator said sarcastically: "It couldn't happen to a better bunch of guys...
Jurisdictional friction became open warfare in the early 1960s, when the N.C.A.A. created a handful of puppet federations in a blatant attempt to encroach on the A.A.U.'s fuzzily defined domain. The N.C.A.A.'s rationale is that the A.A.U. consists of a bunch of doddering old lettermen who are too inept to cope with modern, big-time athletic events. Many in the A.A.U. answer that the salaried coaches and athletic directors of the N.C.A.A. corrupt their youthful charges by paying them off with scholarships and dubious "fringe benefits...
...legendary period for movies: The Conformist, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Five Easy Pieces, Murmur of the Heart, The Wild Bunch, The Godfather, The Sorrow and the Pity. The list supports the idea that America is no longer divided into two publics, the demanding and the undiscerning. Thanks in part to movies, the line between high and popular art has faded into a blur...
...know why blacks bunch toward the lower end of social scale," he writes, "or, for that matter, why Jews bunch toward the top. Cultural factors, general surroundings, and racial discrimination each complicates the analysis in unknown ways." He adds that it was "neither my goal nor my subject" to determine genetic vs. non-genetic factors for various groups...