Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ginsberg meditates now. He makes it clear that he does not believe in God, having substituted a belief in relativity. One student asked him with a note of skepticism if raising consciousness through LSD wasn't a bourgeios excuse for hedonism...
...been asked: Did he predict failure for the Jerusalem talks? As Jordan's King Hussein was about to answer, a door to his office in Amman's Basman Palace flew open and Abdul Hamid Sharaf, Chief of the Royal Court, burst in with a message. Scanning the note that had been handed to him, the King turned to his interviewer, TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn. "I suppose," said Hussein with a grim smile, "we should be speaking in the past tense." The King read the dispatch aloud: President Anwar Sadat had withdrawn his delegation from Jerusalem...
...that the Games are good for Lake Placid and the Adirondack area. The Adirondack Park Agency and other environmentalists objected to any construction that would detract from the purity of the north country's wooded wilderness. Most of their complaints were taken care of by Olympic planners, who note, as one of them said, that "we live in the Adirondacks too." But the environmentalists are still unhappy about one aspect of Olympic construction: the jump towers are clearly visible from the small farm where Abolitionist John Brown's body lies amoldering in its grave...
...fencers take note. If you yell fire too often the director knows you're heated up about nothing. Your temper, in fact, can only help extinguish your chances. Remaining cool through it all however, you will be able to do more in a glance than an army of screaming armchair directors...
Although grades and test scores do figure in the admissions process, the role of such statistics is limited, and many students unfamiliar with Harvard's admissions policy incorrectly assume that poor scores and grades alone will keep them out of Harvard. As admissions officers note, one of the major purposes of recruiting is to uncover the student who does not realize that he may be "in the ballpark...