Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government. And as long as a professor fulfills his commitments to his students and colleagues, he is free to do what he wants with his remaining time--and this could include analyzing documents for the Central Intelligence Agency or helping to plan bombing raids into North Vietnam. Except for prohibiting teachers from abusing students, the University places few restrictions on the use of its facilities. In fact, most Faculty members who do classified work would defend their right to do so by invoking "academic freedom...
...Today, except for serving on civic boards, he relishes his ranch (a 200-acre spread with a private golf course near Palm Springs), his yacht (the 80-ft. Sirius II), his art collection (Rembrandt, El Greco, Vermeer, Rubens) and, above all, his privacy. Ahmanson runs his establishment from his midtown Los Angeles mansion. "I haven't met an employee in 20 years," he muses. "In insurance, maybe I had too much of people...
...there was a prince with dark, flashing eyes and teeth whiter than white, as handsome as, say, Omar Sharif. He didn't like any of the seven marriageable princesses whom his mother had lined up for him; in fact, he didn't really like much of anything except riding his high-spirited white horse. One day, while cantering across the meadows, his horse threw him and galloped off. When the prince finally caught up with the horse-with the help of a flying monk-it had been appropriated by a peasant girl of such deep dark beauty that...
...girl. But they couldn't just get married like that, with those seven princesses waiting around, so the prince cleverly decided to organize a dishwashing contest, the winner to get his hand. Naturally, most of the princesses fainted dead away at the sight of all those dirty dishes, except for one evil and efficient type with a gift for sabotage, who finally won-but only temporarily, of course...
...short--except for Great Expectations, which tells more about growing up and Lord of the Flies, which isn't located on home ground--Our Mother's House is the first expose of childhood I've seen...