Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business last week. The tireless Tito visited Iraq, Syria and Jordan, while Minutic was singing La Traviata in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. Minutic's father, when reached at his home in Dalmatia, denied the gossip about his daughter's romance. "The only thing they have in common," he said, "is their love for good music...
...encounter with the Klan was probably my most dramatic adventure as a reporter in North Carolina but it was not typical. More common were dull evenings at high school commencements or jaunts to union meetings at rural hamburger stands. At the Forsyth County Courthouse I heard well-meaning politicians worry about library book thefts and ambulance service. At Winston-Salem's City Hall I watched a gruff old Republican alderman roll his eyes while a fellow board member--a 28-year-old former Black Panther--discussed problems of old people in a housing project...
...commented that perhaps "date-rape" is less common at Radcliffe not because of our urban location (as was printed), but because of the fact that it is part of a co-ed university community. Radcliffe women have opportunities to socialize with men in casual, non-dating situations that are not available at women's colleges...
...student body second and only then members of clubs and organizations. The logic of this ordering is at least that we are individuals all our lives, students here for four years, and members of groups if and only if we are here. Members of the assembly have joined a common enterprise as students, and the CDU threatens to destroy our common relationship...
...instruments in Narratives assume personalities of their own, carrying on musical conversations among themselves. In the opening skit, for example, a violin, cello and piano exchange various harmonies, attempting to reach a common ground. In a later piece an altercation between between cello and alto-trombone ranges from melodrama to farce. Kim's parallels and parodies the actors' disjointed monologues. In one skit a piano accompanies actress Irene Worth, responding to the natural cadences of her voice as she relives a traumatic childhood experience. The culmination of this tension between the actor and instrument occurs in the last piece when...