Word: detours
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...couple of these fictitious sons of Harvard--the token preppie's last name has necessitated a disclaimer in the "Publisher's Note" actually take less than, predictable paths, but not before a detour through a detail and cliche-loaded section about 1954-58. The details are sure to cause reminiscing in Harvard Clubs nationwide, if not in dorm rooms...
...Oakland, he boarded and then settled into his seat for the one-hour flight. Less than ten minutes after takeoff, an elderly woman sitting near him commented that they had 13 more hours of flying time. It began to dawn on Lewis that he might have taken a slight detour. Some 13,000 miles later, after spending twelve hours in New Zealand's largest city, he arrived back in Los Angeles. Lewis, an ingenuous though perhaps a bit flighty student at Sacramento City College, is having his moment in the media sun. He has appeared on the Tonight show ("Auckland...
...understands that defending free speech means more than mouthing pieties about its importance in a democratic society. Thus, after a brief detour to explain first principles, he devotes the bulk of his letter to commenting on individual issues relating to free speech. While he admits, with Bokian modesty, that he cannot "pretend to answer all the questions and problems that could arise involving free speech," he does manage to provide a good number of thoughtful answers...
...Harvard women's lacrosse squad, all that's blocking the Bridge to B.U-the site of the 1984 national tournament's Final Four-as a 50-minute detour later this week...
This time the name is Meese. Nominated for the prestigious post of Attorney General, Edwin R. Meese III discovered he could only proceed down Pennsylvania Avenue to Justice after a laborious detour on Capitol Hill before the Senate Judiciary committee. Meese's apparent involvement in or knowledge of the Reagan camp's acquisition of covert Carter campaign papers in 1980 promised, by itself, to be only a minor fly in the confirmation ointment. But then came the money...