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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there were one's tears. David Halberstam was pursuing then-Dean McGeorge Bundy with the same instructive ferocity he displayed a little later in bringing the war home from Vietnam. Archibald MacLeish was the Faculty post-in-residence, but Gregory Corso was holding forth on the street. Joan Bacz was finding her voice in a coffee house on Plympton St. And there was a graduate student named John Beebe, a tall, looking man from rural Indians who had alarmed his family by giving up a secure to seek a PhD in Slavie when it came to language...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Nixes VES Grade Change | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...Curriculum Review Committee, which makes recommendations to the administration on problems within the program, spent much of this past year discussing this concern with distribution. Faculty member Joan Scott, professor of women's studies, says that around 90 percent of Brown students already take at least one class outside their majors and that the other 10 percent are mainly science concentrators...

Author: By Janet A. Titus, | Title: "Model College" Leads Ivies in Applicants | 5/12/1983 | See Source »

...hoped that Joan Rivers will some day lean so far over the mud pit from which she extracts her egregious material that she will topple in and be heard from nevermore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1983 | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

Looking as fresh as if she had just completed an afternoon stroll, Home-Town Favorite Joan Benoit, 25, glided across the finish line of the 87th Boston Marathon in the time of 2:22:42. That was almost three minutes faster than the previous women's record for the distance, held jointly by New Zealand's Allison Roe and Norway's Crete Waitz. Incredibly, Benoit finished less than 14 minutes after the men's winner, Greg Meyer, 27, who crushed his own competition with a time of 2:09. Said Women's Runner-Up Jacqueline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 2, 1983 | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

NONFICTION: Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman Eleni, Nicholas Gage ∙Frida, Hayden Herrera ∙ Lectures on Don Quixote, Vladimir Nabokov Salvador, Joan Didion ∙ White Mischief, James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: May 2, 1983 | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

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