Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always liked Santayana's exit from Harvard," Rick says. "He stood looking out the window then turned toward his lecture audience and said, 'Gentlemen, I have an appointment with April,' and he left...
...seventh grade when one day he chanced to glance out the window of his classroom and saw two golfers sauntering down the fairway of the Rochester Country Club shouldering their own bags. The irrepressible call to the caddy yard got the better of young Hagen who effected a hasty exit through the window when the teacher's back was turned and legged it to the clubhouse. The episode marked the end of Hagen's formal education, but when it came to hustling on the golf course, Machiavelli could have taken young Walter's correspondence course...
...land last Tuesday. At Monticello, University of Virginia students gave him a cheer and a toast at dawn, and on the floor of the House of Representatives three scholars tried to pour a little of his wisdom into the heads of legislators, who were impatiently edging toward the Easter exit. Jerry Ford limousined over to the Jefferson Memorial to lay a wreath and claim some political kinship with the Virginian. And even one cab driver's tribute was recorded augustly by the Washington Post: "Yeah, I guess he was about the best...
...Andrei Amalrik, 37, spent five years in prison and exile for the smuggling abroad of his book, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?-largely because the answer was an emphatic no. Last week Amalrik agreed to leave the Soviet Union and accept a permanent exit visa to Israel, although neither he nor his wife are Jewish. A tough and often eccentric loner, Amalrik yielded after nearly a year of harassment that began after his release. After finding the pressures "intolerable," he decided to accept the Soviet government's longstanding offer to give him a visa to Israel...
...affections and, until the last years of his life, he changed them as frequently. He took an engineer's interest in their anatomy, handled them with dexterity but not much warmth. The affair could come to a smooth ending or a crash landing. However Hughes made his exit, his women-out of either gratitude or fear-rarely said a word about him. They were all part of the legend, and part of the reason that America was fascinated with...