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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wait, isn't this too crazy to be believable? It may be mad, but current policy does head us toward war. We will be a lot madder if we don't look before we have already leapt...

Author: By Peter Davis, | Title: Contra-ctual Obligations | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...Before long, the matron and the dilettante are seen together constantly at art galleries and museums. People begin to talk, and Frances receives a painful reproof from her old friend Alice: "I thought it was important how we appeared to the world . . . It's not that what's inside isn't more important. Of course it is. But I thought you and I believed that our outward selves should reflect, as far as possible, the things we stand...

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

RICHARD EISERT, the Undergraduate Council chairman, says he doesn't view the student government as a business. Looking at a few of the council's operations, it's evident Eisert isn't lying...

Author: By Kevin M. Malisani, | Title: The Business of Government | 5/8/1987 | See Source »

During freshman year, you think you know where you want to live. You list that house, get assigned to that house, but everything isn't as expected. So, you file an application to transfer. While most people may think that the average transfer applicant is seeking refuge from the Quad, reasons for transferring vary from looking for different living situations to different friends. And some students actually ask to transfer from the river to what they perceive as the better life at the Quad...

Author: By Gordon M. Burnes, | Title: Transferring Houses | 5/8/1987 | See Source »

...friend the classics purist is upset that the Classical Club's production of Sophokles' tragedy Aias doesn't have an all-male cast, as it did during its original run. But Aias isn't the Hasty Pudding show, I answer--although the overactors in this play rival the Pudding's in the way they exaggerate their characters to the point of comic caricature...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Aias | 5/6/1987 | See Source »

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