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...chaotic atmosphere was enhanced by the heavy volume of traffic in the Yard, which was so thick that University police had to station an officer by Johnston Gate to direct students' parents who arrived to take their children home until next year...

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber, | Title: Traffic Snarls Yard As Students Depart | 5/31/1978 | See Source »

...bales of hay to practice his whip technique, huddling with his father over race films to decipher the art of moving a horse up in traffic or setting him down for the stretch run, crouching along the rail at the starting gate to learn how to navigate those first chaotic moments of a race. At 13, he was practicing yoga to develop his concentration?yoga at 13!?because he knew he would need it. "All I thought about was riding. In school, I thought about riding. On weekends, I thought about riding. I thought about riding all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cauthen: A Born Winner | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...were not−life palpably shifted gears. The Beatles quickly changed the face of popular culture: they soon helped transform fashions in everything from dress and manners to politics and sexuality. Certainly the upheavals of the '60s would have occurred without the Beatles, but the style of that chaotic era would not have been the same. The decade rocked, and at times exploded, to the Beatles' galvanizing beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Teen Dreams | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

Flexner, author of a magisterial four-volume life of George Washington, believes that this chaotic childhood left Hamilton, for all his brilliance, a strange and scarred man, "by far the most psychologically troubled of the founding fathers." He finds in Hamilton two very different, constantly warring creatures. One is the paragon of eighth-grade history: logical, visionary, very nearly alabaster; the other, "the semimadman who sought from the world an ever-denied release from inner wounds ... The accomplished, smooth and brilliant man of the world could at any moment change hysterically, invisibly, for the time being decisively, into an imperiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cracked Alabaster | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

Included in the policy statement are objections concerned with procedural provisions in the Constitution which would unduly isolate the student assembly from student opinions, and which might make election of assembly officers chaotic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Republicans, Gays on Constitution | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

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