Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also voted down a school bond issue. Last year 200 first, second-and third-grade students were crowded into a 65-year-old red brick elementary school. Then fire authorities threatened to condemn the building's second floor, which has only one wooden staircase and an inadequate fire exit. More than half the pupils were transferred to nearby schools, compounding the crowding problem...
Princeton's University Action Group (UAG) decided to attend the meeting and then question Herrnstein on the I.Q. issue, whish was not on the agenda. If and when he refused to answer questions on the topic, they planned to forcibly block his exit from the lecture room...
...exit from the galleries housing the exhibition Picasso in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art hand three sketches. They are portraits of Honore de Balzac, a writer whose work Picasso has illustrated, a literary figure who in trying to encompass la comedie humaine in his novels inspired Picasso to a similar undertaking in art. Perhaps if these studies had been placed at the entrance to the show, they would have served as a hint to make this anniversary retrospective more all-inclusive
...Magnum photographer-writer who worked in Viet Nam roughly for five years (1966-71). He hates the war, and his book, particularly the captions and brief texts that begin its various sections, will perhaps initially dismay even some readers who would like to run, not walk, to the nearest exit in Viet...
...just kids, but critics. Because I think they felt, as I did, that uncertainty was the American state of mind. Old Gertrude Stein on her deathbed sighed, "What is the answer?" And topped it with "What is the question?" You could go to literary distinction with that kind of exit line, and in a sense, that is where Salinger took...