Word: halle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experiences this year were adverse. Another roommate recalls having a discussion about abortion with a friend located close to Memorial Hall. Since our phone was as just as good as the next one at picking up WHRB while it was broadcasting a football game, my roommate was gratified to hear cheering crowds right after he had made his "big point." The most interference of all, however, results from calling the Quad. Maybe the cosmic background radiation is the problem there, AT&T engineers would tell...
Social standing is always relative. To the hardscrabble peasants down in the Irish village of Ballybeg, the clan in the big house on the hill is the nobility. But at Ballybeg Hall the members of that gilded tribe are keenly aware of a wider world and their piddling place in it. They glamourize the past: a tatty cushion or tarnished candlestick becomes an heirloom by reason of a (probably fictitious) anecdotal link to some bygone celebrity. They embroider the dismal present. They deny the looming future of dissolution and dispersal...
...government's placid tolerance of such heresies is largely a matter of timing. With 3,000 international delegates attending the annual meeting of the 47-member Asian Development Bank last week in the Great Hall of the People, within earshot of Tiananmen Square, officials wanted to avoid any unpleasantness. And the protest came just days before the scheduled May 15-18 summit meeting between Chinese officials and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
Virginia Mackay-Smith, a senior freshperson adviser and proctor for Weld Hall, says she thinks drinking is a major problem for freshpeople. Most proctors, she says, "have the attitude that drinking is something freshmen...
...Symphony Orchestra--Jordan Hall...