Word: levies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned to politics. During the 1948 war for independence, Sapir went abroad to raise the funds to buy the guns. Thereafter he served as the moneyman for both the government and the party, building up a strong political machine in the process. Two years ago, when the late Premier Levi Eshkol first fell ill and the Labor Party secretariat met to discuss a successor, Sapir designated Golda Meir. Three months later, when Eshkol died, the choice became fact...
...Levi-Strauss makes a connection between the increasingly representational tendencies in Western art (culminating with the Impressionists' pseudoscience of "capturing" light) and the elite system of distribution, the "individualization" of culture consumption. (The "art lover" syndrome is unique to modern societies.) Primitive art, by contrast, is for everybody and performs a social function, possesses a sign-value. Language is by nature a group phenomenon, an device versa. It follows that, in the chance of historical signification's surrounding the events at Adalen in 1931, without a clear definition of group relations, social depth-perception, class-consciousness, etc., you are going...
...LAUGH very much these days. In fact, there've been only two things that made me cackle in recent memory: a line from Levi-Strauss ("... among the Mashona and Matabele of Africa the word 'totem' also means 'sister's vulva,' which provides indirect confirmation of the equivalence between eating and copulation"), and the play by Chris Durang '71 at Dunster House ("Where's Jesus' body?" "Would you believe the Knights of Columbus fervently...
...Greatest Musical Ever Sung shares (if only fitfully) much of its vigor. If you still take your eucharist seriously, go to the Prudential or something; if not, there's still time to hear the Pharisees do a splendid barbershop quartet. Yuks per minute, its a lot easier going than Levi-Strauss...
With the Bulldogs holding a 7-1 record, neither Jauron nor Yale has any regrets. With one game to go, Jauron has already broken Clint Frank's single season record of 136 carries and Levi Jackson's mark of 779 yards rushing...