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Word: lesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this work against this great evil. The task will not be easy, and with an important but unfortunately unexciting slate of case-by-case reviews in the offing, it will take real dedication. But the memory of Steve Biko and all he stood for compels us to do no less. It may be a new year, but the goal remains the same: Harvard and U.S. dollars out of South Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remembering Steve Biko | 9/15/1978 | See Source »

AMERICA ALIVE" was not ready. Thus neither were we. Thus I talked with Mona Caywood-Moore, who had earlier told me, "People think its morbid, or something--I'm having the time of my life. I never laughed so hard. It's no less morbid than women who have breast enlargements--get a little built up for the magazines. And I've been in more pain having braces put on my teeth...

Author: By Dequinces W. Josephson, | Title: Oh, Atlanta | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

They were kicking around, this clone wehrmacht. Jesse Bolt has been playing Elvis for three or four years, and his girlfriend Rhyne was seeing less and less of the Jesse Bolt she knew and loved, more and more of the corpulent Memphis shaker. She tried to understand, and one day made the mistake of saying she'd give anything to understand --within the earshot of Danny O'Day. He said, "Anything?" and voila, she had cut off her long brown hair and dyed it black and was Miss Elvis Presley...

Author: By Dequinces W. Josephson, | Title: Oh, Atlanta | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

...their work against this great evil. The task will not be easy, and with an important but unfortunately unexciting slate of case-by-case reviews in the offing, it will take real dedication. But the memory of Steve Biko and all he stood for compels us to do no less. It may be a new year, but the goal remains the same: Harvard and U.S. dollars out of South Africa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remembering Steve Biko | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

...whole page to a feature column, "Biting the Backlash." In it, Runner-Writer Colman McCarthy mourns that his fellow treaders "are being knocked, mocked and socked." He prescribes a strategy for runners in the face of backlash. They should enjoy the derisive jokes, he says, and then more or less retreat metaphysically into their own misunderstood superiority. Toward that end he commends to them a line from T.S. Eliot: "In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away." Evidently True Runners are feeling the needle - but without getting the point. It is, simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Running a Good Thing into the Ground | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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