Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of disillusionment. As a freshman at my over-whelmingly white, exclusive private school, I took a course in a dry subject with the wittiest and most amusing teacher there. Like everyone else, I secretly adored him and desperately wanted to talk to him after class. Near term's end I finally got up the courage to approach him with a question. Within minutes he had broached the subject of sickle cell anemia. At fourteeen, I was completely paralyzed with humiliation. For a split-second I wanted not to be black. I wanted not to be black, because then perhaps...
...NEAR THE end of that interminable three-hour talk, the writer recalled a gracious, but condescending professor's wife whom she and her husband had known at a college where she was a visiting lecturer. The woman, upon meeting her husband, a printer, made a point of learning a lot about printing, presumably so that she'd be able to make conversation with him and put him at ease at faculty dinners. "She didn't realize," The writer said softly, "that of course my husband could have talked with her about any number of subjects." I was chilled...
...end of the afternoon, though, Bayliss's humility had proved unfounded. The Midshipmen kept their 1979 record perfect by stunning the Crimson, 5-4, on Navy's windswept outdoor courts. It was the biggest upset in Eastern League tennis since Harvard defeated Princeton...
...Near the end of the first half, Sarah Mleczko scored the Crimson's prettiest goal of the game when Seidler fed her the ball from behind goal. Mleczko took the pass and quick-sticked the ball past the unsuspecting Penn goalie...
...Libby Pierpont and Sally Roberts came closest to snaring a third point for Harvard. After Pierpont and Roberts split sets with Bernstein and Sue Silver, it all came down to double match point in a final set tiebreaker. But Bernstein cracked an ace past Roberts' forehand to end the suspense...