Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little. Mao rested his head back against his chair and when he talked, he would roll it toward his interpreter and speak directly at her instead of at the Americans. She listened and watched his lips closely. His difficulty in forming words is apparently the result of strokes. Sometimes Miss Tang did not understand what Mao said. She would repeat the sentence and he would nod if she got it right. Other times she had to write the words down and show them to Mao for verification...
...little, teach a little, reflect a little and read, write and converse a lot. I couldn't have chosen a better place, and, for all my cavils about Harvard, I have come to love it in my way and know that once I am back in Washington, I'll miss the old place...especially the dogs...
...tend toward the strenuous is Martin Kilson, professor of Government. Kilson said he runs two miles every day that he can. "I started running for my health two months ago, but now it's a pleasure," he said, adding that running has become "compulsive" and that he "hates" to miss a day because of things like traveling that interrupt his routine...
...many areas, as a result, the academies have drastically reduced the number of white students in the public schools. In Jackson, Miss., for example, half of all white pupils attend private schools, including six run by the blatantly segregationist Citizens Council Foundation; in Charlotte, N.C., one-sixth of all white children have moved to private schools. In Memphis, 25,000 whites have fled the public schools for private academies in the past three years, tipping the racial balance from fifty-fifty to 70% black and frustrating court orders for desegregation. "It's impossible to integrate two races when...
...Miss Lonelyhearts. A partically successful production of an adaptation of Nathaneal W est's novella about a sort of grotesque Dear Abby. The play itself is a watered down, '50s version of the original, but Stephen Kolzak's direction is tight and his cast--with the unfortunate exception of Robert Beusamn as Miss Lonelyhearts--ably conveys the negativity of W est's vision. In the Quincy House Dining Room, December 11-13, at 8:15 p.m. Tickets...