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Word: choses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mere coincidence that both books chose red objects as photographic themes. Red gets your attention and refuses to back down: stop signs, sunsets, the Russian flag, and fire engines are colored not for visibilities sake, but to stop action, halt movement, and freeze thought. If Santa wasn't dressed in red, how could little children believe in his omniscience? Could Superman bring truth and justice to the world if he had a yellow cape? Clearly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Color Red | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

About halfway through the meet, when it was clear that the Crimson would blow away the visitors. Harvard chose to enter swimmers unofficially in order to let Villanova score more points...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Men's Swimming | 11/28/1984 | See Source »

...desirable to try to make all who think such thoughts feel guilt, a dangerous emotion? Surely, no one proposes action to prevent students from privately discussing such things? Did not the real fault in that incident lie with those who, stumbling accidently on what was clearly a private missive, chose to make it public? Do we want to encourage eavesdropping in an effort to cleanse the College of salaciousness? I find the former almost always offensive, while I often enjoy the latter (though not in the case of the Pi Eta's gross letter.) E. L. Pattullo

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Case for The Clubs | 11/27/1984 | See Source »

...best-known candidate, obviously, was Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. But last month the diocesan electors deadlocked over Tutu's antiapartheid militancy. As the debate flared, the national hierarchy intervened and, in secret session last week, twelve black and eleven white bishops chose Tutu. The bishop, who has led the activist South African Council of Churches since 1978, found a change of tasks entirely welcome. "The time is just right for me to leave the SACC. The world has given its verdict with the Nobel Prize," he observed, adding, "I am fundamentally a pastor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tidings | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

There are two issues I would like to address regarding those students who chose not to participate in the Oxfam fast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defending the Oxfam Fast | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

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