Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evasion and fraud. He did, however, admit to one piece of chicanery. Returning to the witness stand before the defense rested its case, the former Senate Democratic secretary once again invoked Old Friend Lyndon Johnson, related that the then majority leader had scolded him in 1960 for his extracurricular activities. L.B.J., Baker testified, "did not think that I should practice law, since in his judgment I had a full-time job. I was, in essence, moonlighting...
...committee will probably also follow a procedure used last year to determine "the strength of the class," Monro said. By going through freshmen folders, and talking to senior advisers and advisers of extracurricular activities, the committee was able to isolate the "one to two hundred people who stood out and seemed to be contributing a lot to the community already," Monro said. With their roommates, these students were distributed first among the different Houses; this segment constituted about 30 to 40 per cent of the class...
Except for Yale and Carnegie Tech, universities until a decade or so ago left the training of theater professionals to such hard-knocks schools as Broadway or summer stock. Drama was mostly taught through extracurricular "little theaters" and courses scissored into English departments. Sometimes, as at Northwestern, the training was conducted with style and produced an abundant number of graduates who became actors...
Known to his Westwood staff as "the super chief," Murphy divides his twelve-hour day between campus work and a host of extracurricular duties, including board membership on the Ford Motor Co., the McCall Corp. and the Menninger Foundation. Art Collector Murphy is also on the board of the National Gallery of Art. With all this activity, there are bound to be some student murmurs about absenteeism in the front office, but the chancellor is such a familiar sight on campus that his customary outfit of blue blazer and grey flannel slacks is known as "the Murphy uniform." Murphy seldom...
...sides-a disillusioned and cynical neutralist, proud of his prowess in bed and at table. Aboard a ship bearing him to a Russian Black Sea port, Hillier gorges himself at both. In a stateroom, he literally tangles with an extraordinarily supple Indian girl who is an expert at the extracurricular forms to which the Kama Sutra is only a primer. In the dining room, an eating contest with another passenger becomes the most hilarious bit of trenchermanship since Albert Finney and Joyce Redman fed their faces in Tom Jones...