Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Public Garden, off the Arlington stop of the MBTA Green Line, is the Ritz-Carlton of Boston Parks. Carefully cut sidewalks, ornate bridges, ornamental trees, treehouses, flowers, and graffiti-less statues dot the park. (At least all this was true before "A Small Circle of Friends", of plastic snow fame, moved in to film last week...
...Faculty caucuses filled this vacuum of power, by preparing drafts of legislation and working cut compromises before formal Faculty meetings. This uneasy alliance--and heated politicking--enabled the Faculty, in a series of extraordinary meetings, to pass controversial and innovative proposals almost unanimously...
Clifford threw just eight pitches on this day, striking out Mike Brown on a turbocharged 2-2 fastball, and getting Georgeu--who dh'd as well as pitched--to watch an 0-2 curve cut right across the plate to end the game...
Once the United States finally halted its destruction of Vietnam the self-proclaimed New Left, torn by factionalism and deprived of the war as its impelling centerpiece, dissipated. But contrary to contemporary mythology. Harvard's radicals did not simply cut their hair, don suits and flock hastily to the nearest law or business school. Many are teachers in urban schools, directors of public interest groups, union organizers. Some are academics. Few, if any, now believe that revolution lurks just around the corner. But if they have discarded some of the rhetoric, they have not abandoned their ideals: radical or progressive...
...FREEDOMS GAINED by students over the past decade, the ending of the draft, the decentralization of many University decisions, have all cut down on the emotional drive and immediacy of student activist movements. Student groups working for change today tend to choose their goals more carefully and deliberately than their predecessors of ten years ago; and the chances for serious, violent confrontation are much smaller. Post-Watergate kids grew up with a certain thick-skinned cynicism: a lot of The System is venal, maybe most of it, but it's no use bashing your head against it to make...