Word: lating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after Pool had finished speaking-an elevator at the side of the foyer opened, and about 20 young people emerged. "We're from B. U.," one explained. "You're late," he was told...
...Bernie Z. Dartmouth is better all around than the Quakers and the game is being played in Hanover, N.H., while the Astroturf in Philadelphia rests up. The Indians will jump off to a quick lead, and the Quakers' attempt to recover will be too little too late. It'd b great if Penn could win, wouldn't it. The Big Green...
...elite members of "the leadership" met with all remaining Weathermen in the city, numbering between 200 and 300, late Thursday night and decided against the proposed action. They cited the increased police surveillance and the need for maximum numbers at Saturday's final demonstration as reasons for the cancellation...
...Once the most industrious and prosperous of Eastern Europeans, the Czechoslovaks are passively resisting Soviet occupation by the only means left to them: loafing. They wander aimlessly in the streets and fill the pubs from early morning until closing time. Construction sites are deserted. Office workers arrive late and often do not return after lunch. Says a factory foreman: "If you saw our plant at peak production hours, you would think we were on strike." "There is no respect for superiors, because they do nothing either," adds a Czechoslovak manager...
Madding Emptiness. Set mainly in Detroit, Them spans three decades, from the economic depression of the late 1930s through the gathering moral and spiritual depression of the affluent postwar years. The book ends in the fire and blood of Detroit's 1967 summer riot. On the surface, the book is hard, cold and terrifying. Its core, however, is molten with sympathy for the struggles of the major characters. The result is Urban Gothic, a type of naturalism saved from the simple cataloguing of disasters by the author's ability to transform the mysteries of experience into vital characterizations...