Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frequently asked is how I manage to get along at Harvard. I can honestly say that being a disabled student is not terribly more difficult than being an able-bodied one. I know: I've spent two years here each way. Of course there are problems, but in general they are no more overwhelming than what the average student faces; they are merely different sorts of problems...
...stranger to South Carolina's political scene, he is a comparative newcomer. In his only previous bid for public office, "Pug," as his friends call him, stunned South Carolina's political hierarchy by winning the 1974 Democratic gubernatorial primary. He was not allowed to participate in the general election, however, for a controversial court decision reversed a lower court's ruling that he met the state's eligibility requirements...
...first member of Congress to be granted a maternity leave. But after six years of involvement in national politics, California Representative Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, 45, has decided to go local. Instead of trying for a fourth term in the capital, she is now running for state attorney general. "In Washington, I was only one out of 43 members of the California congressional delegation. In California, I will be one out of one," says Burke. When asked whether California voters are ready to have a woman as top cop, Burke likes to point out that a woman already holds...
...amusement during the '20s and early '30s. It was a resentful, mocking epoch; Americans, disillusioned by World War I, were anxious to smash icons and uncover clay feet. In newspapers, magazines -the Smart Set and the American Mercury-and some 40 books, Mencken merrily blasted Christianity in general and the Bible Belt in particular. He satirized professors, savaged politicians and labeled the majority of Americans-i.e., anyone who did not agree with the author's prejudices-as the booboisie...
Vermont, in a flurry of accomplishment, designated a State Cold Water Fish (trout), a State Warm Water Fish (walleyed pike) and a State Insect (honey bee). The Massachusetts general court, though moving hardly at all on important issues, considered (and, amazingly, rejected) the adoption of a State Poem with the opening line, "Chickadee, chickadee, chickadee ..." Connecticut, which got along for 190 years without a State Song, obtained one at last when the legislature picked Yankee Doodle-after replacing the word girls with folks. Widely criticized years ago for ending a session in which the designation of the Great Dane...