Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Nice People's Escape." Why did they go? In his 1964 book, The Urban Complex, Robert Weaver reasoned: "It is an escape from changing neighborhoods, lower-class encroachment, inadequate public services and inferior schools. It is running away from the ugly facts of urban life; facts that have always...
Early one morning pro-Jadid troops and armored units rolled up Damascus' fashionable Abu Rummana Street, and began blasting away at Hafez' home and the tough desert troops guarding it. For hours the battle raged-interrupted only by one brief pause when the rebels permitted Hafez' wife...
Chris Wickens defeated Steve Zwarg Brown 8 to 4 at 167, and Harvard's Jeff Grant reversed Don Kmieczak in the last 30 seconds to win 6 to 5 at 177. Bill Malugen won his first Harvard varsity match by default against Bob Maddox at 191. Malugen, after a second...
We have, then, five condemned people: Frantz to his attic and guilt; Leni to her incestuous love; the father to death in six months; Werner to his inferior position as unfavored son; and Johanna to an impossible choice. And they live in a world polarized by the existential isolation of...
To librarian Herbert E. Kleist, the box which houses the Harvard book-jacket collection is worth more than all the first editions in Houghton. Since 1948 he has taken a few minutes at the end of each day to sift through the five or six dozen jackets accumulated for him...