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Relizion was dise-tablished at Yale College when the fast compulsory chapel service was dismissed as the present examination period began. To future generations of Yale men the stories of how undergraduates leaped from deep slumber into rubber boots and ulsters and then raced desperately across the campus to be in time for morning provers will sound as unreal as tales from ancient history. Compulsory church attendance on Sunday is also a thing of the past. Religion is no longer an alarm clock. The monitor's list of present and absent sent will no more serve as a discourage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Its Own | 4/21/2004 | See Source »

Barry Levinson, the director of "Good Morning, Vietnam," and the film's producer. Mark Johnson, will discuss the movie which stars actor-comedian Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer, an irreverent and immensely popular dise-jockey on the Armed Forces Vietnam Network...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Film To Premiere Tonight Here | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

...mess, there is enough Southern spice and authenticity to keep the film original and diverting. Rudolph has captured a convincingly real sense of the offstage lives, complete with amiable wild-man behavior, recording session, groupies, tour bus talk, and deal-making-and breaking. And the image of a corrupt dise jockey (Rip Torn) who insists. "Payola isn't dead down here--it's not even sick" is candidly refreshing. Although the music segments in the film do not match Nelson's or Kristofferson's "real life" shows, they do impart a pleasant, down-home charge of energy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down-Home Sleaze | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

Tinerama, the program he appears on, also broadcasts the Top 40 western pop songs. Schuster said. "Our dise-jockeys are able to dicuss the lyrics and what it means to the average western youth" explained Kratch...

Author: By Johnathan M. Moses, | Title: Radio Free Europe Sends Harvard Over Airwaves | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

...picture is not all bleak. Some employers have sought to fight prejudice by setting an unofficial quota so the number of immigrants is kept below a particular level in any one department. After a difficult introductory period many employers have found that the hostility dise down...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Britain's Race Problem: Quick Rewrite of an American Tradition | 11/1/1967 | See Source »

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