Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miriam Sagan '75 has suggested that "the Crimson would have better served the Harvard community by reporting the exact nature of Shockley's theories," rather than focusing on circumstances surrounding the cancellation of his appearance...
Nobody knows the exact population of Saudi Arabia; estimates range from 3,400,000 to 8,200,000. Skills are in short supply, and many Saudis generally consider manual labor beneath their dignity. Much of the work is done by 300,000 foreign laborers: Yemenites in the construction trades and Jordanians and Palestinians in the offices. There are some modern oases: Riyadh, the centrally located capital, and Jidda, the commercial center on the Red Sea, have expansive boulevards and plenty of low-rise apartment houses, shops and government buildings. But there are no movies and no night life...
McGuane's prose is precisely crafted and exact, reflecting the high degree of articulation Skelton demands of himself. But it is also extremely fluid, lyrically delineating Skelton's consciousness...
...Crimson article seemed designed to attack any movement of black and white students against racism. The Crimson would have better served the Harvard community by reporting the exact nature of Shockley's theories. Miriam Sagan...
...knee socks and "sensible" shoes. A sturdy, affable spinster of 59, Dixy Lee Ray lives in an 8-ft.-by-28-ft. motor home that belies her $42,500-a-year salary. She parks it somewhere in rural Virginia-commuting to work by chauffeured limousine-but she keeps its exact location a secret; she has been forced to move once because of county ordinances against trailers. Wherever she goes, her miniature poodle and huge, shaggy Scottish deerhound go too. They have welcomed, and startled, many a visitor to Ray's office in the AEC headquarters at Germantown...