Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World Series. Updike says, "We were outraged and amused by this kind of buffoon. Nixon seemed that way too. From the safety of Harvard, it looked like an aberration in American politics--a subject in which we had little interest." McCarthy's threat to Harvard began to disappear as the Class of '54 was leaving. Concerns of the student body returned to subjects from which its collective attention had never strayed very...
...story is simple, taken from a novel by Joan Lindsay, who refuses to reveal whether it was based on a true event or not. In the year 1900, a group of school-girls go to Hanging Rock, an ancient volcanic outcropping, for a picnic. Three girls and a teacher disappear. One girl is found a week later, but no teace of the other three is ever seen again...
...Boston audiences still must endure the conditions of Hynes Auditorium--universally referred to as a "barn," with poor acoustics and bad sight lines. But in 1981 the Met in Boston will move to the refurbished Music Hall, and the last major advantage the New York house can claim will disappear...
...Pipes's "enchanted world" dissolved in the heat of the strike and its aftermath, those faculty members who sought such a world did not disappear with it. Some former members of the caucus have retired; others have died. But ten years later, the majority continue to teach, no longer members of a faction, but unchanged in their assessment of the legacy of 1969. Lost scholarship, student-faculty distrust, enmities within the Faculty--the conservatives regard these as the long-term ill effects. The long-term lesson, as May puts it, is the realization that "nearly all issues can be discussed...
...disappear" in Argentina means to be taken away by men in mufti who claim to be members of the country's security forces. When the desaparecido's family applies for habeas corpus, the government often claims to know nothing, if it replies at all. With luck, the missing person reappears in jail. The death of Lestrem, who according to human rights reports had been arrested in 1976, tortured and then released by Argentina's military junta, is a mystery. He could have been killed by the military, surmised a Buenos Aires defense lawyer. Or by leftist guerrillas...