Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite their constant demands for divestiture in South Africa, activist students have been unsuccessful in persuading the corporate mentality of the administration. However, the kind of student hypocrisy paraded at last Thurday's meeting leads nowhere--with either administrators or students. How can fellow students be expected to take rallies and boycotts seriously when "Strike Now" posters are sold by the Young Spartacans in the Union for two dollars a piece--and activist groups are plagued by the indecision and lack of leadership shown, for example, at last week's nuclear protest meeting (where students left because organizers could...
From the seminary, which he leaves for reasons of "Eros generally, not Eros specifically," Wills slings himself into Bill Buckley's energetic orbit of lively conversation, sailboats and sports cars whose "constant whirrings down, fussy tuggings, and resumed flight seemed a nuisance rather than a luxury." In a holding pattern over New York, Wills falls into conversation with a stewardess. The talk continues during the ride from the airport, but later the young journalist cannot remember her name. A little subterfuge results in a new meeting and a marriage-now past its 20th year. By today's matrimonial...
Fish lives today with the same ethics he preached forty years ago. Though his expressions of anti-Communist sentiments and gratuitous-sounding pitches for black equality make the '70s children uncomfortable, he remains constant to his world. He is totally committed to preserving the America he idolizes...
...barriers of race and class that Islam opposes, dissolve dramatically at the hajj. Once a pilgrimage made mostly by Muslims of the Middle East and North Africa, the hajj has become a universal and unifying ritual. For those who have taken part in it, the hajj acts as a constant testament to Islam's vision of a divine power that transcends all human frailties...
...HEIGHTS--This was really opening day in a lot of respects. There was the weather, a constant reminder to all that the baseball season begins a week too early. There were the fans, blow-dried guys, and the girls who all looked like nurses. There was a Good Humor truck in the parking lot, and the good-humor man himself. Larry Brown, on the mound for Harvard...