Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night late July, when the Birds were defeated to fall further off the pace, the fans shuffled off quietly and the girl in the front row stood for the first time since the game began. All the men around her had left, and the usher beckoned noisily from the exit for everyone to leave. She stood gazing at the diamond, where the ground crew was rolling out the dull green tarpaulin to close out the night. Slowly I made my way to the first row. The arena was all ours. My heart beat harder than a Baltimore chop under...
...test of whether the Soviets intend to live up to the "humanitarian" clauses of the Helsinki declaration signed by Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev last month. One clause of the agreement requires the Soviet Union to "examine favorably and on the basis of humanitarian considerations requests for exit or entry permits" for Soviet citizens and foreigners who want to marry...
...post as dean of the now-extinct Radcliffe Office of Admissions, Financial Aid and Women's Education to assume the deanship of Harvard's new Office of Undergraduate Affairs. After all, Arthurs has been hard at work for the last two years preparing the scenario for her own exit. Voicing her views "very noisily" on the Strauch Committee, Arthurs pushed for an admissions policy that would make her own Byerly Hall bailiwick superfluous. Now, with equal access and merged admissions offices a reality, she is sadly saying goodbye to what she calls "an independent, autonomous, happy office...
...little. They have, to a point, come from all over the country and from almost every conceivable background. The administration is responsible for seeing that the whole thing gels somehow, in an orderly and friendly way, and that you will eventually justify its decision to admit you when you exit into the real world with the Harvard stamp on your forehead...
...poetry. The recent snubbing of Solzhenitsyn by the White House suggests that things have returned to the Platonic state. Which is where they should be, according to Robert Penn Warren's Democracy and Poetry; when poets begin pleasing the powerful, citizens had best look for the nearest exit...