Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Louise Hom '82 said yesterday the noise from the jets really does not bother her at all. "I live near the San Francisco Airport and so the noise sounds a bit homelike," Hom said...
Harvard earned its only team victory when it rolled over Brown Sunday night by a score of 41-12. Senior John Franklin notched an important win in the 150-1b. class fighting back from near defeat and pinning his opponent with just four seconds remaining in the final period...
Even with interest rates at near record levels, the nation's inflation-heated economy keeps puffing along anyway, and bankers fear that lowering rates right now would make inflation worse. At week's end only Chase Manhattan and some small banks had followed Southwest's lead. Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller, whose tight money policy is a key reason that rates have been rising, told a congressional committee that he would not be surprised to see rates remain high for some time...
Independence cannot be achieved without heartbreak. Everyone suffers, especially Dubin. Near the end, he mourns being "alone in the cosmos," and the course of the novel proves him right. Such knowledge is harsh, but the acquisition of it is tinged with exhilaration. Dubin knows what he knows but goes on living and working. Similarly, Malamud's fiction is a hedge against depression; it conveys pleasure through its artistry, through its deft translation of ideas into events and living, breathing characters. Life may be, as so many Malamud characters discover, a matter of taking the good with the bad. Dubin...
Many spectators in the courtroom clustered near the windows to listen to the pro-Johnson demonstrators outside beating drums and chanting "Free Terrance" and "We say no to police brutality and racism." The court clerk swooped down on them, chastising them like wayward children to "Keep away from those windows; the blinds are closed for a reason." The whole event reached a sort of anti-climax with the announcement of a delay in the trial because the defendant had changed his plea from self-defense in both shootings to self-defense in the first and temporary insanity in the second...