Search Details

Word: ende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...should follow in order to "ameliorate the effects of apartheid with respect to their own employees, even where such action impinges on profitability." The guidelines are based on principles first proposed in 1977 by Rev. Leon Sullivan, a director of General Motors Corporation, and would require a company to end discriminatory practices in employment and working conditions...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Harvard Faces a Flood Of Shareholder Resolutions | 4/5/1979 | See Source »

...message of Voices, though, is muffled because every last thing comes out all right in the end. If there isn't going to be a certain amount of real tragedy in the love relationship, then just for realism's sake you'd expect a little in the bothered family. Instead, the younger brother gets out of gangs and into civility, and the father, who the day before burned down his tailor shop for the insurance money so he could pay off his bookie, somehow turns up for the disco's opening night where he beams at his son who somehow...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: One Sings, The Other Doesn't | 4/5/1979 | See Source »

...end of this quixotic journey, however, Ellison's unnamed protagonist had not yet resolved the paradox of his American identity. Even though he discovers the roots of his identity in Harlem ("I yam what I yam!" he says), at the end of his journey, he still has not yet discovered "the next phase," as he puts it, and so can only...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: Afro-American Literature | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

...North House Committee voted yesterday to end its boycott of the Student Assembly because the assembly has agreed to hold a College-wide referendum on political parties. Susan K McConnell, chairman of the committee, said yesterday...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: North House Votes To Stop Boycotting Student Assembly | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

...Yale race, a grueling four-mile, half-hour spectacle attended by thousands of alumni and students each June. The longest crew race in the world, the Harvard-Yale regatta is the culmination of nine months of practice and six weeks of racing experience; everybody "goes for broke." At the end of last year's race, senior George Aitken fainted, while Gordie Gardiner was bent double with cramps. One oarsman recalls the agony: "I was just hurting. I didn't feel anything, any emotion. I've never hurt as badly--I just wanted to stop and lie there." Only later...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: Crew Takes To The Charles: Avast There, Ye Lubbers! | 4/3/1979 | See Source »

Previous | 228 | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | 237 | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | 243 | 244 | 245 | 246 | 247 | 248 | Next