Word: havens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other ways though, things haven't changed much. True, Alfred Hitchcock's arrival in the Square would now be a minor occurrence compared to Bob Dylan's grand entrance, but lines still form in front of Bogart movies at the local theaters. University librarians perpetually devise and abandon schemes to force students to return their books on time and Cambridge officials continue to fret over illegally parked cars. And the town remains, as The Crimson warned incoming freshmen more than two decades ago "a dreary place, given to rain and coal smoke and brown, granulated slush." Perhaps most importantly...
...dime a dozen," she says. "You just hope that you stick with it long enough that the others will have given up." Having won a graduate fellowship to the conservatory, she adds: "As long as the voice matures so late, I might as well use school as a haven and not face the cold, cruel world...
Little Joe, as he has been called since high school days in Oakland (he is 5 ft. 7 in., 162 lbs.), pilots a blue-and-green 1977 Cadillac these days and is building a four-bedroom house on 2.6 acres above San Francisco Bay. "But I haven't changed," he insists. "I'm still concerned about doing well. I have a chance for a batting title this year. It keeps me pushing." Joe, who has been married for ten years to his high school sweetheart, says that he would marry her again tomorrow. He takes college courses...
Paul Firman pulls a string of European companies offering tax-haven advice for the wealthy. To hear Firman tell it, his setup "is an organization concerned with tax avoidance by strictly legal means." A Dutch criminologist named Professor Frits Krom had once glimpsed Firman in a different guise, as an agent in an extortion and embezzlement ring...
...dubious arguments of the representatives of History and Literature. The council did not seem to see through the interdisciplinary argument to the real reason History and Literature did not want the concentration opened: some members simply like the elite stature of the major. They wanted to preserve their little haven at all costs...