Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...separate faction because Bissell and Mullin found too much "male supremacy" in the Weather Underground. The women refused any special treatment from the men and forbade them to use such words as bitchy, ballsy or aggressive when talking about women. They also never wore dresses or makeup, except as disguises, condemning them as symbols of male exploitation that were also out of keeping with Mao's dictum of depersonalization. The four lived in the Echo Park-Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, a pleasant older part of the city. Bissell and Perry shared an apartment, while Justesen and Mullin...
David Berkowitz, a nice Jewish boy, the son of Sam, got his kicks by killing young people out on dates with his Bulldog revolver. Except for the last killing, all the murders occurred in Queens and Brooklyn, and had whole neighborhoods terrified, whole groups of young women positive they were next, whole squads of vigilantes ready to kill anyone fitting the scanty description of the killer. Berkowitz held a gun to the city...
...there were other crazies in 1977. The people who looted during the power blackout, for example. Good liberals justified the looting by pointing out that these people were 'hungry,' and were expressing 'racial rage.' Except for the fact that the looters took televisions, stereos and couches, not food, and the fact that T.V. news cameras clearly showed not rage but actual gaiety on the faces of the looters, this theory holds up. Of course, right knees jerked as rapidly as the left ones, as some observers claimed that the looters stole because they were human jackals, amoral animals, the scum...
...next year, freshman males in Ivy League colleges will be eligible for all varsity teams except football and crew, Robert E. Kaufmann '62, associate dean for finance and administration, said yesterday...
Frank J. Weissbecker, director of University Food Services, says that the early stages of his "Soybeanization" program have been successful and announces plans gradually to replace "most other foods--except Coke" served by the University Food Service...