Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clouding the vision of other administrators and creating a veil of prejudice through which the student population must view us. It seems pitiful that in one of the world's most "enlightened" institutions, the administration sees fit to malign and degrade people in a manner more suitable to the Dark Ages. However, as organizations devoting their time, energy and money to help others, the position of the Harvard administration concerns us little. Considering that this is an institution that barred admission to Blacks for hundreds of years, has shown only a cosmetic interest in community service and demonstrates a constant...
...this point, it all seemed unreal. But the second car's arrival forced me to take it more seriously. I hoped the police were not prepared to "apprehend the perpetrators." There were several inaudible words over the walkie-talkie, then I heard "dark clothes..." I cursed myself for not being dressed in a bright suit...
...world is misbehaving again, and George Bush's puppy presidency, like Jerry Ford's English-muffin phase, has passed from American screens. Once again, as so often before, troops moved through the night; a defiant dictatorship strode the dark streets of a tiny, helpless nation; NATO complained and quibbled; the Soviets unexpectedly moved a bishop in the great chess game of power. The convicted ghost of Ollie North haunted Pennsylvania Avenue, and House Speaker Jim Wright -- a linchpin in this Government, like him or not -- teetered. The weary old terrestrial sphere was either too hot or too cold and capricious...
ELEEMOSYNARY. Playwright Lee Blessing (A Walk in the Woods) encapsulates feminism through three generations of strong-minded women in a deft, dark off- Broadway comedy...
...sometimes seems as much in abundance as water. In the cricket-chattering dusk, John Kneubuhl, a grand old man of the island, who went from here to Yale and then to a screenwriting career in Hollywood, recalls how he used to play hide-and-seek in the ghost-filled dark as a boy. Now, he says, traditions are fading. "It's like a volcano getting ready, not exactly to explode but at the very least to ooze...