Word: davids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...David D. Dix, associate director of the Harvard Computing Center, called the present facilities "nearly inadequate." The machine room has had to house five major computers and cannot be properly air-conditioned, he said...
...University of Illinois at Urb ana-Champaign, students tried several ways of disrupting the campus. About 200 of them, led by members of Students for a Democratic Society, staged a "grovel-in" in the driveway of University President David D. Henry's house and read off a list of grievances including an appeal for more black students and a condemnation of the school's "white racist" policies. The students also tried to tie up telephone lines to administrative offices and to book appointments with campus officials in an effort to keep them too busy to perform their jobs...
PUSHKIN by David Magarshack. 320 pages. Grove...
Spitting the Pits. Pushkin's life was no less odd and puzzling than his works, as this solid, sometimes pedestrian biography by Russian-born David Magarshack makes clear. As a founding father of Russian literature, Pushkin behaved more like a rakehell uncle. A tiny (5 ft. 3 in.), edgy man with fingernails as long as claws and half-simian features, Pushkin pursued all the known excesses with prodigious energy. Though he was ugly, he exerted a vast sexual attraction through his sheer intensity. A fellow student recalled that at the touch of a dancing partner's hand...
...seats available at the price they pay. Generally this is pretty straightforward -- BAD buys up a block of seats and distributes them to students as the orders come in--but when Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead came from New York to the Schubert, BAD, negotiated a special deal with David Merrick's office. Along with running sales through the priority ticket service, Merrick had agreed to a discount price for students--the first time any legitimate theatre had done so. Students were to be charged a flat $2.50 price for the best seats available at any given performance...