Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Realizing that I knew neither the sponsor, the destination, nor the purpose of the statement on academic freedom which I signed at Quincy House, I requested my name be withdrawn--though apparently too late to escape the CRIMSON ad of February 25. Ferdinand Gajewski Teaching Fellow in Music
Pointed at the suspect like a dowser's divining rod, the weapon works on two simple principles: speed and pressure. Before the offender can escape, or if he resists arrest, the sticks are clamped around his arm, wrist or hand. The cords act as a hinge. If he resists...
ONE OF the fears that we had last spring was that the program might easily become another underground railroad for talented black youths to "escape" the South. This was why the program was designed as an exchange--western students coming South to college, and southern students going West to college...
I'd like to think that Roth is also writing something like the Jewish parallel to Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He himself identifies Portnoy's older sister with a copy of Portrait. In his other work, Roth has introduced well-known book titles...
As an adult, Portnoy makes his most strenuous escape attempt with the aid of the Monkey, a hypererotic fashion model from the impoverished hills of West Virginia who is the fulfillment of Portnoy's steamiest adolescent sex fantasies. The Monkey business ends in a frenzied bedroom burlesque in Rome...