Word: levi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel as anywhere else. But the reason isn't always audience apathy. A satirical revue called Jesus, As Seen by His Friends-a fairly savage commentary on Israel's government establishment by Playwright Amos Kenan-lasted for only seven performances before it was closed down by Levi Guery, the official government censor. Guery explained that he found the revue "offensive to another religion...
President Bok appoints Claude Levi-Straus to be the New University Architect. "We need a good Structuralist around here", Bok explains. "Now that we've built Gund Hall, maybe Dr. Levi can tell us what it's for." In an uncharacteristic display of independence, the Senate erupts in a barrage of catcalls and Bronx cheers until Spiro Agnew and a phalanx of Sergeant-at-Arms convince Congressional spitoons to turn on their former masters Frank Fisher, director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning releases a report entitled What the Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1973 Wants...
...quite the same as in most cities. Then one gradually notices that the driver of the black Mercedes is a beautiful Laotian girl wearing the traditional skirt of glossy silk, heavily embroidered in gold, and that the driver in the Jeep behind her, wearing a pair of smart Levi's, is also a girl. Then one realizes that there are far more women drivers than one would normally see-except, that is, in a small country that is losing 500 to 600 soldiers a month, killed, wounded or missing in action...
...relations drawn in literature between our own experience and its intelligible representation. That Sir Thomas Browne is now studied in universities as a specimen of English 17th century prose doesn't concern the reader, who turns to Pseudodoxia Epidemica in the same spirit that he turns to Wittgenstein or Levi-Strauss: to collect what could be called "taxonomies of natural phenomena." Nostalgia, the sad evocation of our universal angst, episodes which recall a decisive moment in our lives, ontological dread before the landscape we inhabit: these are all sensations which, like the reader's bookshelves, belong to some taxonomic order...
...Ford with the Pinto, American Motors spent a remarkably low $5,000,000 and simply cut down the Hornet. As a result, the company produces the only subcompact with a six-cylinder engine (the others have four cylinders). Its latest gimmick is to offer optional denim upholstery by Levi Strauss. Together, the Hornet and Gremlin ring up two-thirds of American Motors' car sales...