Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recent issues discussed by the CUE include regulating independent study, revising portions of the Core Curriculum, investigating the possibility of increasing opportunities for foreign study, and drafting a set of tutorial reforms designed to bring students in closer contact with faculty members...
...they had won. All those queer movies, they must have been right. I was dying. I looked out the window and saw that it was night. When I looked again, it was day. I called the phone company, and they said it was day. Then I looked a little closer and noticed a construction crew working out on the street. With mean jackhammers and hard, old faces, they penetrated concrete and dredged up sludge. Scrubby, spotless students passed them by with remarkable direction and oblivious, vacant expressions. They continued like a stream of mosaic colors, and the noise became louder...
...owners of a co-op at Manhattan's 19 East 72nd Street blackballed a $750,000 apartment sale to Richard Nixon. The former President had sought to purchase a nine-room penthouse in the expensive East Side high-rise so that he and his wife Pat could be closer to their children. But the other owners believed that the Nixons would have attracted curiosity seekers and destroyed what one blackballer called the ambiance of the building on the corner of Madison Avenue. "Just imagine," she said, "what would happen if the Shah of Iran visited him." For similar reasons...
...several occasions, Munson asked to be traded to the Indians so he could be closer to his wife Diane and their three children in Canton, 50 miles south of Cleveland. He became a pilot so that he could jet home just for the night after a game. Flying seemed to give him the inner peace he found elusive in the klieg light jungle of baseball. "You get up there," he said once, "and nobody asks you any questions...
...they ride a bicycle or car pool, to think about Jimmy and that they are doing this for the country." But Rosalynn was not merely carrying the President's message and bringing his greetings. No less important, she was listening for the President. Said she: "I can get closer to the people than he can, and then I can go back and talk to him about their hopes and dreams." As Carter has often said, Rosalynn is his closest adviser and confidante. And as she herself once observed: "I have always been more political than he is." Said...