Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Threat of Fires. But the greatest immediate concern was political. Two of the main problems that turned France upside down?student unrest and inflation?are endemic to most of Europe. Indeed, until three weeks ago, European students elsewhere had been far more ferocious than the French ones. Now, in an ominous emulation, Belgian students last week seized the university in Brussels, and New Left students in England placed the black flag of anarchy atop the London School of Economics. Warned the West German weekly Rheinischer Merkur: "France does not stand outside the political streams and conflicts of the Western world...
...main influence of the emergence of drugs on their prep school scenes is a widened gap in the understanding the faculties and students of the two schools have of each other. The big secret students used to hide from their housemasters was drinking. It meant automatic boot. And there was almost always some of it around especially among the big, non-team-captain type athletes. People would get caught passed out in their rooms over Spring Weekend. A few would get kicked out each year. Dozens would come in on the bus every Saturday to tank up in the rooms...
...that was not SFAC's intention, the resolution's author Rogers Albritton and its main opponent Oscar Handlin have both said since. The clause on public meetings was intended to be binding in itself; a petitioned company that refuses a public meeting would not be allowed to come to the Office of Graduate and Career Plans...
...main attractions centered around the baseball diamond. At first base, Roger's buy-a-baloon-for-peace concession was outstripping the competition. Sam Bowles and his flock held down second base while Martin Peretz passed out cigars at shortstop...
There are a few reflections of the acrid, desolate quality in Cheever's original-notably when Merrill is maligned by a series of well-cast bit actors playing the tradespeople and servants he once abused. But, like its main character, the project at bottom is a parody of its essential self. "When you see The Swimmer, will you talk about yourself?" ask the ads. The chances are that the viewer will talk to himself during the long, embellished stretches that, sadly, make up most of the film...