Word: exits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge. In the case of Polish poet Stanislaw Baranczak--now an associate professor of Slavic Languages--Professor Donald Fanger, then chairman of the Slavic department, contacted Baranczak directly in Poland in 1978 to recruit him as a replacement for a retiring professor. Baranczak immediately encountered difficulty in obtaining his exit visa, but he kept in contact with the department for three years and through six unsuccessful visa applications...
...hoodlums pretending to be drunk," who shouted "Lousy Kike" and "Damned anti-Soviet"--an attack he believes was instigated by the KGB, the Soviet secret police, who had harassed him since his release from prison. Although not Jewish, he pretended to be a Jew in order to obtain his exit visa more easily...
White's abrupt exit gladdened the hearts of ten already announced candidates. Inevitably, however, the battle for succession will be fought under the long shadow of King Kevin...
...exit at 2:20 a.m. of more than 200 protesting students from the building, Ballou Hall, capped off about five hours of tension-filled debate over the proposal and whether it provided sufficient reason for the students sitting in--or "clumping," as their form of protest is known--to leave the building...
Dreier, who addressed the students occupying Ballou an hour before their exit, said afterward that the sit-in "was a first step, not a last step" toward revamping the tenure process adding. "I think a lot's been accomplished here...