Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report said that most student employees may return to their positions, but that UHS must still clear some students before they return to work at the River Houses, Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, said yesterday...
...vessel and how to go fox hunting. (Do not show up in black derby with a pink coat. Never done!) But the farther Baldrige explored in the territory of manners, the more she revised and enlarged the Vanderbilt canon. She kicked the stuffiness out of it and inserted a clear-eyed, considerate feminism...
...character. At 6 ft. 1 in., with her strong, intelligent head held at full altitude, her white hair swept back in the Fifth Avenue mane, she enters a room with queenly bearing. But Tish manages to mitigate her formidable presence: she is a direct and funny woman with a clear gaze and a trace of self-mockery. Far from stuffy about good taste, she is even given to repeating the awful and ancient schoolyard joke that is a painful memory to every oversize woman: "Confucius say, boy who dance with tall girl get bust in the mouth...
...Seen from the inside, the characters are simply beleaguered children trying to cope and, ultimately, failing. Outsiders find their degeneration criminal; the book shows the inadequacy of such a judgment. Aberrant acts fascinate because of their strangeness, and those who perform them are rarely able to make their reasons clear. The Cement Garden suggests that the most terrifying thing about such behavior is its mundane lack of mystery...
...secondly, I would like to clear up a quote that appeared not entirely in context. It should not be implied that WHRB "discovered" Private Lightning, The Tweeds, or any number of other promising local bands. The point is that, because of our lack of commitment to ARB statistics or dependence on profit-oriented programming, we at WHRB not only have the desire but also the means to provide these bands with an opportunity to be heard on the airwaves of Boston/Cambridge...