Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political move by Dean Ford and the Masters to avoid a confrontation next fall, but that analysis is doubly faulty. For one thing, the new hours won't free the Committee on Houses from the issue. Some students are sure to use the new hours next fall as a foot-in-the-door to agitate for getting rid of parietals altogether, or the more realistic goal of allowing women to eat at all lunches and dinners...
...about to perform her ninth audition for the New York City Opera. While waiting, she regales her colleagues with the bittersweet aria, I Only Lasted One Day in Frankfurt, and explains that because she found it a gloomy, unfriendly place, she returned to New York without having stepped foot on the Frankfurt stage. The audition now begins. Beverly walks to the front of the stage and sings Sempre Libera from La Traviata. Applause is heard from the pit, and it is obvious that she has finally captivated the City Opera...
...series Gentle Ben. Clarence, the crosseyed lion, co-star of Daktari, took the third prize. A new award for commercials was given Zamba Jr., the lion who walks up out of a subway station for the Dreyfus investment-fund people. The two top awardees received three-foot-high trophies topped by a winged victory...
...rather pretentiously defines the Class of '68 as "the in-between class. We are the last of the old radicals, those who are willing to revolt in the systematic American way. We could be the salvation of everyone if we can just bridge the gap, for we have a foot in each view of American life...
...shouting and Beta huddles on retaliation. A squad car pulls in front of Beta, talks to a Jock who leans in the window, and leaves. A bottle shatters among a half dozen Beta people. A lot of Jocks immediately attack Carmen, running across the street and scaling a 16-foot gate. A bottle brushes through a tree I am standing under and smashes on the sidewalk three feet away. It is disintegrated, powdered into glass fragments no larger than pebbles. I calculate later that a bottle thrown from the tenth floor of Carmen's 15 floors is moving 60 miles...