Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boys that are not mature. When they look at Harvard what they see is what they get--no steaks, no hotel suites, no special treatment. When they look at other schools they are being sold. Once someone enrolls in a college, they are no longer special, the fancy dinners disappear, the hotel room is replaced by the athletic dormitory. For many who come to believe the stories of their own importance and choose the school by the dinner, this comes as a rude surprise...
...place only under special conditions. An animal or plant that dies and is soon after buried in mud or covered by volcanic ash stands a decent chance of being preserved; one that perishes in a jungle or rain forest will probably break down into its chemical components and simply disappear. Few fossils that are formed survive; most are destroyed by the continuing erosion of wind and water. Fewer still are discovered. Though hominid fossils may exist elsewhere, they are found most abundantly-and frequently-in eastern Africa. There, geological processes have exposed layer upon layer of sediments that skilled anthropologists...
...leader of France's largest communist union said yesterday he expects the rift between the French Communist and Socialist parties to disappear before France's general election in March...
...although Christians have differences of opinion about this. Daniel Pierce '78 explains his view on the second coming, which he characterizes as conservative and based directly on a reading of the Corinthians section of the Bible. First, there will be rapture, he says. "All the Christians on earth will disappear. We will be caught up to meet Him in the air." A seven year period of tribulation will follow the rapture. During that time, "a lot of Israelis will be converted to Christianity." At the end of seven years, great armies will attack Palestine, the bastion of Christianity--Pierce suggests...
Once the hallucinations disappear, Roseland glides on to the banal triangle of a wealthy woman (Joan Copeland), a narcissistic gigolo (Christopher Walken) and an awkward naif (Geraldine Chaplin). The final number features a retired cook (Lilia Skala) who dreams of winning a dance prize before she dies. The only prize the cook deserves is one for overheating her role...