Word: exits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a poet's life is infinitely more dangerous than that of a steeple jack. Of her poet friends, nearly a dozen killed themselves one way or another. Elfin Elinor Wylie did it by burning the candle at both ends; Vachel (The Congo) Lindsay made a more gruesome exit by drinking a bottle of Lysol...
...Gruesome Exit. Jean's most traumatic and rewarding chore was the difficult translation into English of Hermann Broch's masterwork The Death of Virgil. Begun almost accidentally, it took years, and required her learning German almost from scratch and suffering almost as many birth pangs as the author himself...
Crying Coeds. Coeds, who make up more than one-third of the school's 318 students, have been known to exit sobbing. But clearly the don-rag institution is approved by St. Johnnies. After each session a summation is written up (and sent to the parents of freshmen), and traditional letter grades reflecting the summation are assigned as a convenience for undergraduates transferring or applying to graduate school. Though students are entitled to see these letter marks, most of them make it a point of pride never to look them up, accepting instead the verbose verdict of the eyeball...
Martin, Douglas Dillon and Budget Director Kermit Gordon are lobbying for measures that would drastically affect the nation's foreign and domestic policies. Among the proposals that one or all three of them have forwarded: an exit tag of $50 or $100 per person to discourage tourism abroad, direct controls on U.S. investments abroad, a further cutback in foreign aid and, if necessary, a sharp reduction of U.S. troop strength in Europe. These proposals have been hotly debated at a series of secret meetings in the White House. The State Department is dead set against foreign aid cuts...
Heading due west from Boston on the Massachusetts Turnpike, the slope-hopping enthusiast would want to further his skills on Mt. Tom in Holyoke, Mass. (five miles north of Exit No. 4). There he could take advantage of a recently-expanded mountain-top-to-base slope that is serviced by a 3450-foot double chair lift and 220-foot T-Bar. A Friday night of skiing after classes would be possible, in that the slope is open to the public seven days and seven nights a week...