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Word: dials (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...necessitates relinquishing one's anonymity and that coping with Harvard's institutionalization is unpleasant at best. As one Radcliffe senior puts it, "I'd rather regulate my life than have Harvard regulate it for me." Or as another disaffected Harvard senior explains, "Once I realized that I had to dial `9' every time I wanted to get out of Harvard into the real world, I knew it was time to move off campus...

Author: By Joy Horowitz, | Title: Students Living Off Campus Find Freedom, But Also Isolation | 3/5/1975 | See Source »

...Creative Photography Gallery is having a Father and Son Photography Exhibit. It's works by this photographer from New York named Mike Levins and his four-year-old son named Johnny, who evidently used a push button Canon Dial camera. I always knew New York kids were precocious, but this is ridiculous...Anyway. It's there through...

Author: By Kathy Gerrett, | Title: GALLERIES | 2/20/1975 | See Source »

...good part of the novel seems to take place in a tree house, where George secretly watches his wife and her hairy lover do their act in what was once Melish's own bedroom. From his preadolescent perch, George reviews his life like a man flipping the dial on a TV set. It is an apt literary device considering that George is a victim of the same attitudes that he has watered down and packaged for mass prime-time consumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Generation Cracks | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

...Harvard Sportspot" will provide a one-minute taped report on happenings on the Harvard athletic scene with the emphasis on sports that are in season. Simply dial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTSPOT | 9/24/1974 | See Source »

...arrive in zippered moneybags, and place mats are blown-up replicas of $1,000 bills. Checks are paid to a cashier appropriately ensconced behind a teller's window. A six-ton armored car drives through town as an advertisement, and to make a reservation one has only to dial the telephone letters A HOLDUP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Steak in the Past | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

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