Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return to the uncertain prospects of Khomeini's Iran. Temporarily, at least, the U.S. has become an uncomfortable haven for the students. "People are going to start calling for our heads," worried one Iranian at Columbia. To avoid the ire of Americans, many Iranian students have adopted a low profile, saying little or nothing about recent events in Tehran. "Iranians usually don't take things passively," said Marilyn Thompson, director of foreign students at Central Y.M.C.A. Community College in Chicago. "But right now most of them feel that they better cool it or they will be sent home...
...part of undergraduate education. Harvard's claim to provide a liberal education is very much open to question, when the picture of European culture that the average student acquires is so shallow, so edited, anthologized and interpreted as to be almost meaningless. From this comes a disorder and low morale among those committed to the humanities that is in contrast with the discipline and order of the scientific camp. The real cause of the decline no doubt lies well beyond Harvard, in the steady evolution of America away from Europe and the apparently terminal crisis of European culture...
...minutes of overtime passed relatively tamely. Walter Diaz uncorked one hard, low shot; but it went straight into Tabak's arms, and the score remained...
Although the national need now is for effective leadership that can begin cutting the U.S.'s dependence on foreign oil without further delay, the President and Congress spent much of last week quarreling over what to do about oil industry profits. The low point was reached on Monday in Providence, R.I., when Carter told a conference of Northeastern state officials that the Senate's efforts to water down his proposed windfall profits tax "could become a trillion-dollar giveaway to the oil companies...
...chord known to junky movie melodrama. Even when she comes up flat, it is hard to look away. Midler does not make the mistake of begging for attention, like her cabaret colleague Liza Minnelli; she retains a sense of humor about herself. By mixing outrageous show-biz posturing with low-key self-effacement, she is a mastermind at getting the audience on her side...