Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bicentennial Follies is an intriguing concoction. Its authors, Paris K.C. Barclay, Steven Gordon Crist and Mark O'Donnell, have seized on a wellworn theme--the fraudulent underbelly of American life, symbolized by the special sham of Hollywood, attached it to a frankly derivative score and allowed their creative instincts free rein. Their product is far from disastrous--in spite of its flaws, Bicentennial Follies is almost consistently entertaining; but, not too surprisingly, it is hardly a dramatically unified whole...
Here are (tentatively some of the key match-ups in today's Harvard-Penn squash showdown: Pos Harvard Penn 1 Bill Kaplan Gil Mateer 2 John Havens Glen Koch 3 Jeff Wiegand Dave Hiner 4 Peter Havens Gordon Anderson 5 Cass Sunstein Pat Murray 6 Mark Panarese John Foster 7 Ned Bacon Chris Rice...
...Gordon Adler and Bob Kelly pushed into the top ten by finishing seventh and tenth respectively...
Blacks were particularly bitter, arguing that Hereford's membership in the club has already hurt the university's black recruitment program. Says Vivian Gordon, assistant professor of sociology and one of the 20 blacks among Virginia's faculty of 1,500: "Blacks know about the Farmington thing; they don't want to teach here." White liberals were also upset. Ruth Angress, head of the German department, resigned from the university. Said she: "Hereford didn't even say he regretted the way the vote turned...
...Gordon believes the answer to this riddle can be found in its surface meaning, "Bookworm." But if we examine the underlying textures, particularly in the last phrase, one meaning and only one meaning seems plausible. The answer to the riddle is "Person During Reading Period, Cramming for Exams." Although the study of Reading Period works is still young, it would not be stretching the truth to say that this riddle is the apotheosis of the genre...