Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last Judgment. It takes place every day." I wonder if Camus read Kafka, who expressed a strikingly similar existential thought when he wrote: "Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name; in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session...
...contends first that divestiture is "legally questionable. "But this University has never before made a practice of deferring to the opinion of the attorney general of Oregon on legal questions of such importance. For instance, Harvard filed a friend of the court brief in the Bakke case...
...traveled to Mission Viejo, Calif., only to meet Tracey Austin in the first round. Needless to say, Austin ran off with the win. But as Richmond says, "There were so many people and T.V. cameras there--my main concern was just not to trip and fall on the tennis court."--She didn...
...going to talk about all that. She's had enough of all the speculation about her appointment, and of all the writers who've made their prejudices about women sportswriters obvious in their profiles of her. Of course, one can't overlook the Times's out-of-court settlement of a 1978 class action suit charging it with discriminatory hinning and promotion practices. Or its subsequent agreement to fill 25 per cent of its senior editorial staff positions with women and other minorities. But as A.M. Rosenthal executive editor of the Times, insists. "We didn't choose a woman sports...
Residents seem ready to renew the court battle. "The MBTA envisions itself to be at the papal seat of transportation," says defendant Henry J. Shawah. "They've never been dragged to court before but that's not going to stop...