Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman with strawberry blond hair knotted atop her head calls from a nearby stall. "You're our star. I want to shake your hand, honey. You're a celebrity. They even had you on TV." Putting out one cigarette, Smith then lights another. At 47, a short, broad-shouldered man in tan dungarees, he has the look of someone who could have spent his life punching in at an automobile plant or a paint factory. But Smith is a celebrity because the assembly lines he manned produced goods made of plutonium, a radioactive element so deadly that even microscopic doses...
...other hand, the boycott served to demonstrate a widespread student support for the issues...
...meeting for students planning to concentrate in Afro-American Studies on April 7, the University showed its hand more clearly. The material in Afro-American Studies, members of the standing committee told students, would be under the control of departments outside Afro-Am. The only courses offered in the program would be tutorials: students considering an Afro-Am concentration would have to specify an "allied field" of concentration, in which they would then have to take additional tutorials. Effectively, then, the only way a student could concentrate in Afro-Am would be to major in another field and choose Afro...
Three Days of the Condor. Always use the back door. You never know, you may slip out for lunch one minute and return the next, pastrami and mustard in hand to find all your office mates spread across their desks, covered with blood. Meek and mild-mannered Robert Redford, who translates Russian novels for U.S. intelligence, came home to just such a spread, and leaving lunch aside, stepped into a phone booth and became "The Condor." The transformation is not complete--Redford is rather mild-mannered as a hero, too. When he calls into Central, he becomes a critical...
...find this argument rather disturbing for several reasons. To begin with, one would hope that individual decisions about boycotting or protesting would be based on the merits of the issues at hand rather than the rhetoric of a few individuals. Should Americans have ignored slavery (or continued to "debate" it) simply because a few abolitionists may have "exaggerated" the nature of that institution? Should we refuse to vote because candidates for office invariably exaggerate what we can reasonably expect them to accomplish. We are asked whether the Coalition has not in fact "exaggerated" claims about racial, class, and sexual oppression...