Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from boarding school mostly found dorm life tedious and moved off-campus as soon as possible, some studiously ignoring the required dorm affiliation and meals. Most of those on and off-campus formed good friendships among themselves, tolerating the rules which did not seem particularly difficult--certainly not oppressive, except for the highly sophisticated. We signed in and out if we were out after 10 p.m. We acknowledged Cambridge street crime and did not walk around alone at night if at all possible Corridors had to be quiet after 10--some people had record players but not all. WHRB...
...were conscious of each other's cultural and social backgrounds. Some girls clustered with others of the same background while others spread out. One hesitated before becoming too romantically involved with someone of a different religion. Except for the Harvard eating clubs (notoriously WASP) we didn't hear about much prejudice, either at Harvard or Radcliffe. There were quite obviously few Black students. For many of us these were the first Black friends...
...excitement for whole generations of students. The emphasis in literature seemed to have been on English authors. If one read Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies, or dipped into Zuleika Dobson, it was a true sign of sophistication. French literature was pretty much uncharted territory, except in my case, for I received a copy of Les Fleurs du Mal with a "sensitive" inscription on the flyleaf from some moony boyfriend. The unexplored terrain of a the Russian novel was as immense as the steppes themselves...
...handle it is based on personal idiosyncrasies, which are the funeral director's responsibility to interpret. The decision to have a casket of cardboard or solid bronze is left to the relatives. What funeral directors give of themselves to families in need will never be put on paper except by those who often write in appreciation...
...Brookings Institution, reported that her organization would soon release a plan to begin immediate steps that would balance the budget by 1989. It would carve nearly $50 billion out of domestic spending, partly by imposing a one-year freeze on cost of living adjustments in all federal benefit programs except those aimed at the poor. The proposal would also slash defense spending by almost $50 billion, mainly by canceling a number of weapons systems, chiefly the B-1 bomber and the MX missile...