Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even as the Pope was preparing his message. Rome police broke up one of the city's thriving vice rings: a group of 35 college girls whose chief extracurricular activity was carried on in a brothel...
...while Corelli's extracurricular antics-he punched a spectator he thought had insulted him, stabbed Basso Boris Christoff with a stage sword-drew attention away from his sizable gifts as a singer. His large, solid dramatic tenor is darker than most, has almost a baritone's quality; at his best Corelli uses it with an animal vitality and drive that leave no audience bored. In Italy bobby-soxers periodically mob him at the stage door, and there is every evidence that he may do for tenors what Ezio Pinza did for bassos. Says he: "I attract mostly young...
...University of Pennsylvania last night placed the editor-in-chief of the Daily Pennsylvanian on conduct probation, thus making him ineligible to participate in extracurricular activities and removing him from the paper...
...prep school (Connecticut's Westminster), he organized a sort of Young Vic called the Wampus Players. "A wampus," by his definition, "is a mythical cat. very large like a dragon, and he doesn't do anything but eat fair maidens." But despite all this extracurricular promise, he was miserable at Westminster. "When you are the son of a famous father," he points out, "there is a great deal of resentment. I think I was resented by everyone...
...England area, but in the immediate vicinity of Boston, that grant athletic scholarships. Second, there is a control over athletic scholarships at each Western college, exercised by the faculty committees at these institutions. . . Finally, it is to be remembered that Harvard grants admission partly on the basis of extracurricular achievement of which athletic ability is a part...