Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side Currently, more men than women apply to Harvard and Yale. A sex-blind admissions policy would undoubtedly raise not only the number of women who apply but also the number of men Both schools would many believe appear more attractive. They would capture the eye of many socially oriented intelligent students who shun the unnatural sex ratio offered by Harvard and Yale...
...undergraduates take five courses for their first three years and only four in their senior year. Do to extenuating circumstances, Cartmell has to take six courses his last year. "There was a doan here a couple of years ago," said one of Cartmell's friends, "who didn't see eye-to-eye with Cartmell's academic program. It was a race to see who would leave first, the doan or Cartmell. Fortunately for Cartmell, the doan retired...
Today, more than 5,000,000 British enthusiasts are pitching at the pug (bull's-eye), and darting claims more participants than any other game in the sports-mad land. Thus when some upstart Yanks recently challenged the vaunted British there was open scorn in London pubs. "It's like snooker," sniffed one expert. "You figure that the best in Britain are the best in the world." Mrs. Jacqueline Eagan, 44, one of three American team members who survived an elimination tournament among 5,000 of the U.S.'s top tossers, figured differently: "We expect to beat...
BUNEUL HAS LITTLE PITY for his protagonists. He demonstrates their greed, lechery, and dishonesty while seemingly delighting in their violent and humiliating fantasies. Passionately convinced that "we have not made the best of all possible worlds," Bunuel once said he wanted to "show with a cold white eye what they have done here on earth in the name...
...most successful of these attempts is "Blind Women." (New York, 1916); Ironically her left eye looks sideways, away from the camera, while the other remains closed, the white just barely peeking out from between the lids. A white-painted sign with dark letters spelling "BLIND" hangs from her neck and stands out bold against her black-robed chest. The cold stone wall behind her head matches the grey strands of hair showing from beneath her black scarf; the wall's slate grey indifference intensifies her rejection from New York's burgeoning society--a society that has pinned a metal badge...