Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leadership of Harvard's libraries. Louis E. Martin, for six years the College Librarian, left to direct the libraries at Cornell University. Top-level administrators in Widener and other libraries are leaving, and others have died. Bryant, who turns 65 this year, must leave Harvard at the end of this year too. You can tell he's not pleased about leaving half his life behind...
...Tolstoy Museum," bears this out. Barthelme yearns for a simpler day, when authors wrote epics instead of this artsy noodling. As he writes in "The Crisis," "Three rebellions ago, the air was fresher." One sometimes wonders why these people who think there is nothing left to write end up killing so many trees. But Barthelme cares about art; perhaps more than any other contemporary figure, he is trying. I am left with this mental picture: Barthelme, sitting in the prow of a sinking boat, the noble idiot frantically bailing...
...files on secret recruiting under the Freedom of Information Act last year but the courts deemed them non-releasable (Gardels v. CIA). In an affidavit, however, the agency did reveal it had covert relations with faculty members. Now Brown University is applying pressure to Turner in an attempt to end covert recruitment...
...Wildcats were able to stay ahead as the lights made repeated attempts to catch up. Radcliffe fell apart 20 strokes from the end and lost by 2.4 seconds...
...Everyone was dead at the end of the race." Benton said. But exhaustion carried with it some jubilation. "We're really excited after the win. The boat feels very strong, even at higher cadences." Benton added...