Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reviews and in much of her poetry. Reflecting on the Movement past and present, Adrienne finds that she has seen "immense changes, even in men. I'm talking about individuals, about small changes that are big for private lives." She believes that "the liberation of women can and will occur, it's an irreversible process... When I was floundering around in the fifties, not knowing who I was or why, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex came like a flash of recognition. Even then, though, I didn't quite make the connection between what she was writing about...
...most peculiar aspects of the system occur in the largest departments, specifically History, English, and Government. For years, academics have questioned the validity of subjectively grading honors theses in English, maintaining that it is nearly impossible to accurately judge the quality of a literary work. This logic seems to be borne out in the English Department. According to sources in the Department, there have been at least three theses for which one reader gave some form of summa and the other reader marked it with some degree...
...barbecues and beer coolers, and join a kind of high-octane happening. Others pay up to $40 a ticket knowing that they will watch more of an attrition process than a race, that most drivers will never finish the 200 laps, that crackups are virtually certain to occur. The prospect of flaming crashes and shattered bodies and the knowledge that fans are also exposed to risk seem to be part of the allure...
What Wall Streeters would like most is a sustained, resolute upswing in prices. In the past, a roaring bull market has never failed to bring back disaffected investors. But that raises a chicken-and-egg question: Can the big price rally needed to bring individual investors back occur if they do not come back to begin with...
None will yet predict an outright recession in 1974, but several foresee a period during which growth will be insignificant. Several warn that an actual recession could occur, given policy mistakes that it would be all too easy for the Government to make...