Word: gassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quadlings, who remain winless at 0-3, tallied in the second quarter on a 45-yd. touchdown pass thrown by Captain-quarterback Paul Hayward to J.J. Gass on a flag pattern...
...acutely cranky 1960 essay. "Masscult is bad in a new way," he wrote, because "it doesn't even have the theoretical possibility of being good." A pernicious "Gresham's law" was inevitable: good art would be driven out by the bad -- by pop. Another ferocious holdout is William Gass, a very intelligent critic whose opaque, self-conscious novels are the sort of fiction that drives literate people toward Judith Krantz. "This muck cripples consciousness," he proclaimed of pop in 1968. "Therefore no concessions should be made to it." Sorry. Concessions were made. "By the late 1960s," writes Princeton Scholar Louis...
Even in the face of fierce repression, even greater numbers of Chileans are finding the courage, born of desperation, and of hope, to openly demand an end to the 10-year dictatorship of General Pinochet and a return to democracy. Every month, with tear-gass, attack dogs, clubs and bullets, police attrack the non-violent protests and rallies of unarmed Chileans. Because of press censorship, the Chilean people cannot fully know what the world hears about events and conditions in their country: they do not know whether their cause has found support or anonymity in the outside world...
...such as polyester--a cardinally sinful item and zippers. "You have to have an idea of who you're trying to be If you want to be a peasant, don't buy velvet. You have to be authentic. People will point it out if you're not," says Dana Gass '85, who revitalized Harvard's SCA chapter last year...
...Gass said she enjoys the group's activities which include medieval dancing and cooking as well as jesting, because they provide "an escape from the pressures of my normal life. She added that the society's events are also geared toward giving the members a "learning experience...