Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week vandals slashed a large televisionscreen in the Mather television lounge and severalchairs in the Junior Common Room, but Shaller saidhe did not see any connection between thatincident and the theft of the flags
...freedom of thought and its expression flourished on a scale never known before, and rarely equaled since." Yet Athenian democracy also put Socrates on trial for speaking his mind and voted to execute him for his "crimes." This horrified Stone, and, he writes, "shook my Jeffersonian faith in the common man." The Trial of Socrates is the result of his effort to understand, if not excuse, how Athens could have besmirched its good name and that of democracy by killing Socrates...
...most common reaction to the film, judging from what I overheard in the lobby afterwards, was one of disillusionment with fallen idols. The Stones themselves just didn't seem all that exciting as real people, and touring with them looked something like a drag. All of this seemed to have not a few Stones fans pretty bummed out, and perhaps that was the real reason Jagger wanted the film suppressed. However, those of us who haven't always harbored the secret desire to tour with the Stones were able to appreciate Cocksucker Blues as a finely crafted minor masterpiece...
THIS naive faith in the universal sanctity of traffic laws was eternally shattered when I began to live in the Quad. My first day of class I walked peacefully and unsuspectingly through the Common and found myself standing on one of the islands in the middle of Mass. Ave., where you cross to reach the Science Center...
Turk submitted as evidence a letter from Walsh, which he said showed that the Coxes had planned to use two common ways of evading the rent control laws: separately buying units in order to rent them to each other, and buying property through a trust fund. According to the letter, Cynthia Cox had planned to live in the apartment that her brother bought, while her brother moved into hers. Each would then have paid rent to the other...