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Word: gets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other Harvard unions have unsuccessfully pushed for this clause in the past, but Pilomeno remains optimistic. "You can't get it unless you keep negotiating for it," he says...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Ready, Set, Negotiate | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...When do we want to get there...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: One for the Neophytes | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...cannon fodder... They'll put you in a war plane and order you to kill people." Kinsman, already straining his Quaker heritage by joining the military, vows he won't be a pawn of a system he does not like but must deal with to get what he wants--into space...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: One for the Neophytes | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...past protagonists, that takes every one of his old plots and recycles it, that is engaged in eternal omphaloskepsis, a sort of literary autism. That's it--the burden of the past: not a roster of great literary forebears but the author's own bibliography. Barth is getting older, and he hasn't found his Theme. Letters is his middle-age-crisis objectified into a monstrosity. No one can fault Barth for wasting a decade of his life on it, if he just had to get it off his chest. But it's the kind of book a more discreet...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Return To Sender | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...TRAVEL BOOK Paul Theroux describes one town that is so dull he bought dental floss to keep busy. Well, folks, get out your dental floss...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Take the A Train | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

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