Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Russell's day, the '50s and '60s, "a good white forward" was the N.B.A.'s notion of the Holy Grail. Everyone was out searching. The common anxiety over Caucasian attendance was as plain as the pale nose on every twelfth man's face. And it was expressed in the extreme whenever a team like the Atlanta Hawks traded Paul Silas, a great forward, for Gary Gregor, a white one. Sixteen years later, the mind still reels. "Now all the whites in the league can play," testifies Silas, an assistant coach with the New Jersey Nets. "Well, anyway, the majority...
ABONG FOR McKinney (our green-thumb friend, Larry) Too bad of your scheme Harvard found itself wary. For ghost-ridden common room dwellers a wink, And for all autumn-lovers a pumpkin-filled sink. For upperclass prefects a few good cold showers, And a few common rooms for the Mather gang's towers. An off-campus shelter for each Cabot dweller--And a quick painless end to the noise in the cellar. Some new ideas for the House Committees Who can't hold keg parties in such a strict city, And for all those upholding the laws against drink...
Your piece on the Black C.A.S.T. production of "For Colored Girls..." was the shittiest excuse for a review that I have ever read. At least the reviewer had the common sense not to sign his name to a review of a show that he obviously did not see. Hang that gutless worm out to dry if you hope to save what little credibility your paper has left. Suzanne L. Griffith...
This year, the Knights of Columbus have again erected a nativity scene, which the local Catholic group bought from the city for one dollar after the 1982 creehe crisis. The Knights have placed a dozen seven-foot figurines depicting the birth of Christ on the Cambridge Common...
...creche is sitting on public property, which according to a Supreme Court decision two years ago is legal. We think, however, that there should be a disclaimer on the scene, making it clear that the Knights and not the City of Cambridge have placed the Yuletide decoration on the Common...