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Word: invitee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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In recent weeks Harvard has been treated to the spectacle of a "law" professor proclaiming that he would have trouble condemning someone who assassinated speakers whose political views the professor judged unacceptable. It is perhaps inevitable that academic freedom protects even this degree of zaniness, but it would be a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boot 'em | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

In The Wedding Guest, for example, a turn-of-the-century young man named Griswold Norrie looks forward to his nuptials with the rich, beautiful Ione Carruthers: "He and Ione between them would be connected by blood or marriage to every family that counted in Manhattan society!" The only impediment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Examples Skinny Island | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

Like Professor Kennedy, I see no reason why a student group should invite South African officials to Harvard, and I agree that the Conservative Club may be making a political statement when it does so. But the best response to one speaker's bad ideas is better ideas from other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protest | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

"Five bucks baby." Adam was gloating; she's got to be fat, only fat girls call fourth grade lovers, only lonely, sweaty, sexually confused consumers of Harlequins, bon bons, and small teddy-bears and poodles track down, call up, and invite up the fourth grade boy from next door. It...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Fourth Grade Blue | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

In one inventive scene, Dona Rose (Robin Nabi) visits a priest who tells her that by saying the rosary she will invite the Holy Spirit into her home and see all of her problems solved. In the background a chorus of women warn Dona Rose against the advice.

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Silent Sins | 4/25/1987 | See Source »

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