Word: invention
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West did not invent sex. She just saw the humor in it, and probably no one before or since has had more fun on what she called the "linen battlefield." "I kid sex," she said. "I take it out into the open and laugh at it. I'm a healthy influence." And, as usual, she was right. Sex goddesses have come and gone and will remain so long as people go to the movies. But only Mae West was able to make a whole career out of the leer and the wink. Her voluptuous figure was as familiar...
WHEN HARVARD gets involved in the business of producing power--just as when it manages its own real estate or thinks about selling what its professors invent--it creates a company. The University chooses the corporate line, administrators say, because it makes things more efficient. "I am about as qualified to manage real estate as I would be to manage the Food Services," Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration, said when asked to explain where the idea for a real estate company came from. "I don't have the faintest idea of what to do in a kitchen...
Greeting the freshmen as "the incomparable Class of 1984," Moses urged them "not to try to invent a version of yourself that you think Harvard somehow requires--be yourself...
...current Republican Administration did not invent inept Government, but it has saddled the country with ineffective Government . . . We pledge a Government in which the new Democratic President will work closely with the leaders of the Congress on a regular, systematic basis so that the people can see the results of unity...
...FORBID SEGAL should ever leave New England or invent characters who didn't go to Harvard, Yale, Radcliffe or Vassar. Or characters who didn't grow up to be professors or lawyers or gallery owners or editors. Or characters who couldn't afford to rent a house for a month at the Cape or eat at Harvest ("the new restaurant behind the Brattle Theater...