Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Class members who live in the Cambridge area now say the University and the community were much more separate. "You could just look at some one from a distance of 50 yards and say town or gown, except in the Wursthaus, where they seemed to come together," Shapiro says. By the time of their graduation, the threat of fighting in a war had disappeared and they left from Cambridge confident that their past was merely a prologue of better times ahead...
...escape The Crimson's or Harvard's attention--the controversy over joint instruction in classes. In the fall of 1950, 267 members of the Class of 1954, and the approximately 700 other Radcliffe students in the preceding three classes, were able to enroll in all Harvard courses except five: Mathematics 1, Astronomy 1a, Economics 1, Social Relations 1a, and Music 1. In following years, women were also allowed to enroll in these courses...
Unfortunately the rockabilly energy level dies down for side two, and Gordon resorts to a series of flaccid slow ballads--"It's Only Make Believe," "Wheel of Fortune," "I Just Met a Memory," and "Blue Christmas." It's well-known that slow numbers are totally worthless, except for high school kids who need a cheap feel at the dance Saturday night to get them through the week. Today's high schools are too busy playing the Bee Gees and Donna Summer to waste time on Robert Gordon...
...trying to determine criteria for competence, and incurable illness. And the hospital staff is closely examining the decision process, "bending over backwards" to preserve the rights of patients and to consider opinions which "cannot be dismissed." In most cases the hospital will respect the wishes of the family, except when "the family asks for something medically unrealistic," Rabkin says...
...shadows are lengthening. The Japanese may be massing for a sweep down the Malay Peninsula, but here, in '30s Singapore, it all seems so far away. On these lush lawns the linen suits are crisp, the stengahs are icy, and the Malay and Chinese servants know their place (except for a spot of bother with Communist agitation). Surely that sun couldn't finally be setting on the Empire...