Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is to be expected at the Harvard summer school, a place of unpredictability, strangeness, extremes...well...Kareem Abdul-Jabbar showed up one summer to study Arabic. It's almost the exact opposite of staid regular-year Harvard, which cruises along tradition-bound and stuffy. Summer School Director Marshall R. Pihl '55 would rather not have us believe this. He wants us to believe in Traditional Harvard. He writes in the introduction...
...know the exact moment," he said, "because there was a 36-hour break in the weather on the Channel. And when Eisenhower got word of that, he gambled and said go, because other than that, they didn't know how long they might have to wait...
...days ago (April 13, to be exact), Eudora Welty turned 75, and again a question surfaced concerning motoring one's aged self around. Welty said she continued to take the wheel, even though she found this approach-ramp business "like trying to enter an eggbeater." The vividness of the simile shows an author still polishing, still looking for the sharpest edge; it is a reflection of Welty today...
...hire a cab to lead a motorcade of aides and reporters to pick up Jackson at Jarrard's home Tuesday morning, and borrow $12 from a reporter to pay the fare. Even then, Aide Frank Watkins had to stop the caravan of vans and buses to ask exact directions from two children playing on a nearby sidewalk...
...invited a representative from the KKK to speak at Harvard? And how would it feel if in the third consecutive year of the KKK visit, Black students were invited only to observe and not to participate in a KKK "teach-in"? The point here is not to draw an exact analogy between the KKK and the PLO, but to underscore the importance of fairness and freedom of speech in the context of a controversial and emotionally-charged issue...