Word: high
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oration is traditionally humorous, Alter said. "The other two are more traditional--kind of high school valedictories given four years later," he added...
WHAT THIS ALL boils down to is boldfaced sophistry, a beautifully-embroidered defense of amorality, a well-fabricated philosophy of avoiding moral choices wherever possible. This ostrich-like posture is exalted to the high plane of statesmanship: Everyone wants him to do different things, Bok seems to say, so he'll do nothing at all. He'll take Engelhard's money and name the damned library after him--then the deed will be done and everybody will have to look to the future. And if critics ask to examine all future gifts to prevent further Engelhards, Bok answers that...
...look similar but they are. This world is so controlled that everything happening has some effect on your life. And I think that when it seems that everyone's runnin' your life, you have to scream. You know? Scream to hear you're there," she said in a high, quiet, somewhat squeamish voice. She was talking mostly about punk, about her first album, "Horses," and the musical movement with which her music has evolved...
...rowed, most of us, the hardest race we ever rowed," stroke Jeff Brown said after the race. Harvard tried to blow Yale out early, starting at a cadence of 42 strokes per minute and settling at a very high 37 for the duration of the race. But Yale did not go away. At the 800-meter mark, where the course curves. Harvard only held the four-seat edge which it had in the staggered start...
...Redman netted an overhead of a deep Horne lob to tie the set 5-5. In a tie-breaker at the end of that set, the Crimson pair fell behind, 3-2, before running off three straight points, the last on a Kirsch put-away of a high Hudson volley. The pair took the second set more easily, 6-4, as Kirsch continued hitting overpowering overheads and repeatedly putting the ball away...