Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This will complicate things. If you want to purchase liquor in the state, you must theoretically have either a Mass. Driver's license, of a special Mass. drinking card that will cost you $5, issued by a department headed by one of King's cronies. Most places--except for Father's Six, a townie dive--don't card you unless your voice cracks when you ask for the Wild Turkey, but during Freshman Week places in the Square may be a little more cautious...
...rigid agenda directs the CHUL meeting, and Dean Rosovsky chairs the meeting strictly. Parliamentary procedure is closely followed, except when Rosovsky allows himself to interject an anecdote or supposedly humorous joke...
CHUL also hears several general reports concerning undergraduates such as reports on the budget and on flu epidemics. The meetings are generally amicable except when an issue pits the students against the faculty--then the meetings can become tense...
...oversees all the graduate schools from his venerable Massachusetts Hall office, with the aid of four vice presidents. Except when dragged out by student activists like those concerned with South Africa, he keeps out of the headlines--emerging to release his president's report, which examines a different corner of the University each year (recent topics included the Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and relations with the federal government...
...early on, while others dismissed Hitler as an unimportant barbarian, Malcolm Muggeridge described the Nazi rise as a threat to civilization. He also fellow-traveled to the Soviet Union in 1932 and found Joseph Stalin a dangerous influence. Sounding alarms to the readership of the Guardian had little effect-except on the Muggeridge style. Soon he was deriding his own trade: "The only fun of journalism is that it puts you in contact with the eminent without being under the necessity to admire them or take them seriously. It is the ideal profession for those who find power fascinating...