Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judge said he favors eliminating the quota except for a five per cent minimum for non-English speaking countries in Asia, Africa. and Latin America-a proposal now under the consideration of the Admissions Policy Committee...
When Hedda Gabler's fatal pistol shot rang out offstage on opening night, a young woman in the second row quivered as if the bullet had entered her body, and the only sounds that those sitting near her heard thereafter, except for the last lines of the play, were her muffled sobs. On subsequent evenings, other women similarly wept. Laughter is always touted in the New York theater, but tears are too rare to go unmentioned. That is earned emotion, a spontaneous accolade to an extremely fine actress and a very great play...
...Friedman's reckoning, history supports his argument. As he notes in his definitive work, A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960, a decline in the nation's money supply has preceded every recession except one (1869-70) in the last hundred years. After World War I, for example, the Government cut its spending by an amount equal to 16% of the U.S. gross national product. On top of that, the Federal Reserve contracted the money supply by 5.2%. Says Paul McCracken: "The remarkable thing is not that there was a 1921 recession but that our economic system survived...
...feet tall, and she wore a leather jacket over a maroon-and-blue striped knit T-shirt, and a hemless mini-skirt made from cut-off corduroy jeans. She had a sharp face-rather pronounced cheekbones, triangular eyes, and a smail, sharp nose. Her blondish hair was uniformly short except for one long, very thin braid in back. There were two long-haired guys with...
...named Charlie. Sometimes she called him the Man. He was the leader of the people she had been living with in L. A. Yana's hair had been down to her waist before he had cut it all very short in some kind of name-giving ceremony. All except for that one braid in back...