Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firmly rooted in the 19th century, transplanted from timeless Vienna to Vienna 1980. The selection of this time period may not have been random, although it is an ultimately undeveloped idea. Specific trends in the Vienna of that time have relevance to the themes of the play. In late 19th century Vienna, many bourgeois marriages had become business contracts of respectability, driving wives to hysteria on Freud's couch and husbands to other reclining positions. One Viennese citizen says prostitution was "the dark underground vault over which rose the gorgeous structure of middle class society with its faultless radiant facade...
...just another day in the life of a University president," President Bok said late yesterday afternoon as he hurried down Mass Ave followed by a crowd of 75 students demanding that he speak to them about Harvard's investments in corporation operating in South Africa...
Brokers know all about Wall Street's legendary selling panics, but whoever heard of a buying panic? That is precisely what swept the New York Stock Exchange late last week. In two incredible days of financial hebephrenia, the cavernous trading room echoed with delirious shouts and yells so loud that it was hard for brokers to talk to one another. After 15 months of steadily slumping prices, the market had taken a sudden and unexpected U-turn, sending short sellers, who make profits by betting on continued declines in stock prices, running for cover...
...late, however, the self-ordained "rock-'n'-roll animal" has spruced up considerably, put on some weight and diminished his waning-moon pallor. Now 36, he lives with at least a semblance of normality, sharing a Greenwich Village apartment with a male lover named Rachael, who chews him out in the manner of spouses everywhere whenever Lou plays his guitar at peak volume. "The most frightening thing anyone can find out about me is how sane I am," Reed insists, glowering out from behind his wrap around shades...
Number-one singles man Lundy fought another hard-luck battle Saturday as the Harvard captain grooved his injury-adjusted serves to highly-touted Quaker Murray Robinson and lost, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4. Lundy put up a fight, but only to see his late-match comeback fall just short...