Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These days defeat and despair hang heavy in the air and sit thick in the interstices between us. Perhaps they always did--we're all mortal, after all--but they seem to grow and flourish especially in an environment where people know there are things terribly wrong with the world and have resigned themselves to the impossibility of doing anything about it. What was happening here five years or so ago seems to have been an attempt to deal with that despair by embracing and working toward an alternative vision of how things could be. That vision fell apart...
...clear to Bok that they expected to stay no longer than five years. They said they were strong believers in turnover--and very much against the pseudo-tenure that tends to develop when university administrators linger in one place too long. Meanwhile, Bok has consciously let his vice presidents grow from controllable arms to autonomous bodies. As he said about the vice presidents...
...cushion him from bureaucratic hassles, he has never had the time to establish himself as the forceful or recognizable educational figure within the University. The crush of personnel changes may once again stifle his educational leadership role. Or worse for Bok, someone else within the University, possibly Rosovsky, may grow tired of waiting for the president to emerge as the educator that others look to for guidance, and claim that role for himself...
...participating in a conference with the Israelis-that might imply recognition of Israel's right to exist as a state. This stance has led to a break between Habash and the more moderate Yasser Arafat, thus making the P.F.L.P. chief a rallying point for those fedayeen who might grow dissatisfied with Arafat's leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Sipping amber-colored tea in a Palestinian refugee camp, Habash last week explained his views to TIME's Wilton Wynn and Abu Said Abu Rish...
...Donoghue, 36, and Anne Beatts, 28, both formerly of the National Lampoon; and Herb Sargent, fiftyish, whose credits include That Was the Week That Was. Their styles are diverse. Their humor is not. Says O'Donoghue: "At some point in your life, you decide to either grow up or look like grownups. We've chosen the latter." Some critics think the show is sophomoric. Replies O'Donoghue: "Sophomoric is just the liberal word for funny...