Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once a very close source of mine who allows me to break the many scandals that I have over the past three years called me up--the source calls me over the telephone with the understanding that I will take the name of Yale's "Deep Throat" to my grave. This source was the one who allowed me to break the story of how the cafeteria snack-bar had hiked the price of Snickers Bar from 25 to 35 cents. The source (whose name I cannot reveal by name but I'll just give you a hint...
...hard to understand how protesters of purportedly deep moral conviction could so quickly drop their beliefs. That when one vital branch of protest gets chilly, they can so quickly fly to another...
Some 3,500 Confederate refugees left their pillared mansions and plantations between 1866 and 1867 in what was one of history's more notable organized exoduses of Americans. Immigrants, especially those from the Deep South, were drawn by the promise of cheap land, a booming cotton industry and the existence of slavery, which was tolerated in Brazil until 1888. But not all of them succeeded in making a life here. Tropical diseases, drought and the remoteness of their settlements drove back 80% of the refugees...
...second gust of reform to hit the Deep South in a month, similar to the election of Buddy Roemer as Governor of Louisiana, Mississippi's partner at the bottom of most measures of prosperity. Both men are young reformers with graduate degrees from Harvard who are dedicated to dispelling the tarnished establishments that have dominated their states' politics, beefing up education systems and aggressively seeking new forms of industry...
...morally inflamed as his Sweeney Todd, yet more forgiving and affirmative than anything he has written before, Into the Woods is the best show yet from the most creative mind in the musical theater today. It is also that joyous rarity, a work of sophisticated artistic ambition and deep political purpose that affords nonstop pleasure...