Word: mono
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BEING A FRESHMAN and frightened, I did not think to be offended. In an infirmary bed and gown, reeking of mono, I was grateful for the place to rest and willing to answer any questions. The doctor came in my room--it was the first time I had seen him--holding my folder in his hand. "I see from your file that you are a Catholic," he said, "Does that disrupt your sex life here at Harvard? Maybe you'd like to tell me what's really bothering...
Bout with Mono...
...historical structures and thought patterns that oppress all of us." Moreover, she sees dangers in uncompromising militancy. "I value the feminist movement, as I value all activist movements that contribute to the struggle for human freedom," she says. "But in their fury and their aggressiveness and their mono-mindedness, women in the movement are proving just as 'phallic' as men, and that is what they should want to avoid. If we fight fire with fire, we'll all end up getting burned...
...ground rules are changing -and radically. The first shock to developers came last September, when the state supreme court ruled on a case called Friends of Mammoth Mountain v. Mono County. The issue was whether the "spirit" of California's Environmental Quality Act of 1970, which requires state agencies to publish detailed reports on the environmental "impact" of their projects, also applied to private developers. The court, which has often acted as a trail blazer for other states, answered unequivocally: "To limit the operation of the E.Q.A. solely to what are essentially public works projects would frustrate the effectiveness...
...With Beethoven and Brahms, Furtwängler could be infuriatingly eccentric. When he was conducting Wagner, though, his stately, expansive, analytic style produced performances that were ingeniously congruent with the composer's convoluted purpose. Drawn from a 1953 series of radio broadcasts from Rome in mono sound that ranges from only dim to adequate, this is a Ring that every Wagnerian will at least want to hear, and probably own as a low-priced but high-keyed contrast to excellent latter-day sets by Solti and Karajan...