Word: ir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week in which President Carter has enjoyed his happiest headlines in months is a good time to discuss his feelings about the press, which might oth erwise seem to be merely sour grapes. The fact is that Carter thinks the press is ir responsible...
...Ir WAS COLD Friday morning, and still pitch black as about 120 students sat waiting and shivering on the steps of University Hall. Two or three out-of-tune guitar players strummed out Woodie Guthrie songs, while several even more out-of-tune voices harmonized them as best they could. Cups of hot chocolate appeared out of somewhere, and people sipped at them, huddled together in the dark and feeling proud, even exuberant over what they had achieved the night before--and for what they would accomplish the following...
DIED. Michéal Mac Liammóir, 78, renowned Irish actor, designer and playwright; of a pulmonary embolism; in Dublin. Blessed with what he called a "godawful gift of gab" and a deep streak of talent, Mac Liammoir designed and appeared in 300 productions at Dublin's Gate, a famed small innovative theater he helped establish in 1928. In the 1960s he popularized the one-man show by giving, on four continents, marvelous solo recitations of passages he had culled from Oscar Wilde, an act he called The Importance of Being Oscar, and from centuries of Irish literature...
...Buddha, and the pictures of generals and presidents on the walls. Each of his last 5 sons is named after a different 5-star general who also serves as a godfather. In one of the photographs Eisenhower sits bemusedly with one of the grandfather's fat baby sons ir...
...most important issues facing the College today is race relations among its students and within the general University community. In my experience, problems ir race relations at Harvard occur for two reasons: 1) because of a lack of knowledge by both parties, especially the majority, about other ethnic groups' experiences in America and 2) an absence of meaningful interaction between people of different races. But the critical tendency among Americans and, to our benefit, a critical mass in the College is to pursue interaction with more confidence and good will than in the past. In student affairs there has been...