Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little digestion. We got over 40 entries for this quiz, people handing in answer sheets up until 1 a.m. Monday morning. Every class in the university was represented, from finance capital to the lowliest of the lumpen. A grand total of about 4000 answers, both straight-forward and way the hell off the track. But as I sit here now, NOBODY, but nobody could compare with the answers that were turned in by Esserman, so I might as well just give you her choicest brainstorms before the fellas in the white nehru jackets pack her away for posterity...
Although the officers have declined to confirm Carson's appearance, in a statement last week Carson said he is "very thrilled and flattered" to accept the award and that he is "looking forward to coming back to Harvard to spend...
...official execration. A veteran of the Long March, he had an early, meteoric rise as a close comrade of Mao's, but eventually tangled with the Chairman over agricultural policy. As party general secretary in the 1960s, Teng began backing away from Mao's disastrous Great Leap Forward, and presided over a moderate program of economic reform. His gruff, authoritarian style as well as his pragmatic approach annoyed the Chairman, who once complained that Teng treated him "like a dead ancestor...
...will find the natives friendly, particularly the official ones. They are looking forward to meeting you with anticipation unmatched since the days of John Kennedy. The cheering crowds may be few, but do not let that put you off: Western Europeans have given up cheering any politicians, most particularly their own. No offense is intended: they are just preoccupied with other matters, as you will quickly find...
...Pipkin as the CHUL chairman, runs the meetings with a strong hand, and on Wednesday strictly enforced time limits to the point of reprimanding speakers for talking too long about issues previously discussed. Whitlock was clearly growing tired of the housing debate last year, and his replacement Fox came forward with a definite plan that probably will carry the day. And Collier, a computer expert who annually bore the bad news of the housing lottery, is no longer available for the committee to kick around. Spence, his replacement, is now talking about an assignment system that would ask students...