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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baaron Pittenger, associate director of athletics, said yesterday it is not clear what changes will occur next fall and that all efforts will be made to retain Yovicsin...
...riot," says Johnston. "There wasn't anything to demonstrate against." Even not being allowed to use Lamont, then a new building that seemed to Radcliffe students. Pinck remembers, like the Garden of Eden, wasn't considered at the time to be anything to demonstrate against. "It didn't occur to anybody to feel excluded from anything," Johnston says. No one can remember any tradition of feminism that might have been associated with a women's college, or any trace of solidarity as women in a male atmosphere. "There was no sense of being interested in the rights of women...
...bear-hugged by the President," beamed Jack Valenti last week. Valenti, now the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, used to experience such cordial acts all the time, when he was Johnson's confidant. After his White House days, such moments did not occur that often, and Valenti might have run the other way had he seen Nixon headed toward him. But when Ford traveled across Lafayette Park to see Candice Bergen in a picture about Teddy Roosevelt's days called The Wind and the Lion, Valenti's beaming puss was captured for the morning...
Such sinking, called subsidence by geologists, can occur naturally. In river deltas, for example, as muddy sediments pile up, their weight often grows great enough to press down the land beneath them. Subsidence can also take place on a larger scale as a byproduct of the creeping movements of the giant, continent-sized plates that make up the earth's surface. Whatever the cause, natural subsidence is extremely slow and almost imperceptible. It is subsidence caused by humans that is taking place with alarming speed in many parts of the U.S. and elsewhere...
...horrors planned by the fictional bad guys are no more grandiose than those that actually do occur. Yet some how, one of Ambler's losers, worrying about how to get through a grubby border station and about the things that will happen to him if he does not succeed, generates more uneasiness in the reader than any of the new terrorist melodramas. Is the problem that guerrilla theater is bad art, too charged with bombast to seem real, even when real people are dying? Like Western heads of state, thriller writers do not seem to know what to make...