Word: cum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cooled as an issue, to be revived only in episodes like the raid on the North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp at Son Tay, which called into question the intelligence procedures of the U.S. military. Americans were much more preoccupied with a recession-cum-inflation that raised the unemployment rate to 5.8%, the highest level since 1963, and firmly resisted Nixon's best monetary and fiscal prescriptions. The consumer movement championed by Ralph Nader gathered strength, often in alliance with the year's overriding cause, ecology (see page...
...stimulate deep intellectual curiosity with books and materials that illuminated the black experience. SEEK and College Discovery staffers are now convinced that their efforts have dramatically changed the several thousand students who have already entered the programs. When SEEK produced its first four college graduates last winter, two were cum laude and all were headed for graduate school, including a remarkable hustler turned scholar, Arnold Kemp (see box opposite). By the time of the campus eruptions last year, the question for Bowker was whether the university could expand SEEK still further...
...someone had asked me which Brandeis student was involved with guns, the last person I would have guessed was Susan," says a friend who has known her since Susan transferred from the University of Syracuse in 1968. It was only within the past year that Susan, a magna cum laude graduate last spring, became involved in such activities as Women's Liberation, the New Haven Panther rally and the Brandeis Strike Information Center...
...Stanley R. Bond, 26, another ex-convict from Walpole who entered Brandeis last February on the special prison STEP program; Kathy Power, 21, a Brandeis senior active in the national student strike center there through the spring and summer; and Susan Saxe, 21, a June graduate of Brandeis, magna cum laude in American and English Literature...
...another example: At the end of the film, Nicholson is again faced with a crisis: he is now alienated from both his bequeathed identity (gifted pianist) and his assumed one (oil rigger cum sumbitch). The moment is poignant enough, but the response of theprotagonist of Five Easy Pieces is only a depressingly immature reassertion of character consistency-he blows town. When what is desperately needed is a fresh way to look at something, we are given something to look at. Apocalyptic world-views are fashionable, and it's a respectable ambition to depict what it is that drives...