Word: exceptions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Looks like fun, even if your date does cost you five dollars. Everyone's got an eye on the Crimson, and one problem is that Harvard has everything to lose and nothing to gain since it ranks first in New England. No one knows anything substantial about Holy Cross except that most of last year's team is back. New offense, new coach. Yovicsin has voiced his usual caution, but the Crusaders would surprise me greatly if they won. Look for Harvard, 21-7, after a shaky start...
Over the past few years the Corporation has sent letters to members of the Board of Overseers, Faculty members, and important alumni asking for nominations. "The current letter is not much different from those sent out in the past except it is a little more formalized and is going to more people," Sargent Kennedy, secretary to the Corporation, said...
...seat when the hallucinations got bad. The next day I was feeling really strange. I was psychotically paranoid. I thought people were trying to kill me and that they were behind huge plots against me. When I got back to school about two weeks later, I was pretty normal except that I never wanted to take seeds again...
...empathic teacher of history in an urban high school. Supporting characters include an iconoclastic Jewish principal (Michael Constantine) who openly hates PTA meetings, and a stereotypical, wide-eyed, white apprentice teacher (Karen Valentine) capable of telling Haynes, "I think it's so significant that you're colored." Except for such sappy moments, Room 222 may prove to be more good-humoredly wise on the problems of school prejudice and board-of-education bureaucracy than that overpraised book and film Up the Down Staircase...
...Taking a long view, FitzGibbon compares the performance of the Allied occupying powers with those of the English after the Stuart Restoration, Americans after Appomattox, and the European victors of Waterloo. In each case national character and historical tradition shaped policy. In 1660 the English Crown granted general amnesty, except for the clergymen, to all but a few of the Cromwellian regicides, although republican soldiers (allowing for technological limitations) had behaved nearly as atrociously toward the Irish as Hitler's armies in non-German Europe. Neither Robert E. Lee nor any other Southern leader was charged with war crimes...