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Word: oral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman is enough to make readers think that sex really is dirty. She describes remarkably unpleasant oral activities with her female lover; if a man had written that, feminists would have beaten him unconscious with a copy of The Hite Report. The heroine is forever masturbating. Sex is often joyless or, when it is good, it sounds like 42nd Street: "Hot . . . hard . . . dripping . . . throbbing." At one point, Isadora complains: "While the whole world is f- away behind closed doors, all I do is write, write, write." Scribble, scribble, scribble, eh, Ms. Jong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oral History | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

Students received photocopies of the papers yesterday at section meetings of the class, "Writing and Oral Communication. "They were read a statement declaring that all the papers were being held to "protect the rights of the two students involved", and that the case would probably involve a hearing by the Judicial Review Board...

Author: By Joseph H. Yeager, | Title: B-School Alleges Plagiarism | 3/8/1977 | See Source »

...obvious questions after the Office of the Registrar released the list of the largest ten spring semester courses (actually 11 due to a tie) last week are ones like what makes a course like Humanities 9b, "Oral and Popular Literature," attract 667 people, twice as many as took it last year, or why did Natural Sciences 4, "Natural Selection and Behavioral Biology," lose 240 people from first semester? In short, what makes a course popular...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: The Unfathomable Mind | 3/5/1977 | See Source »

...with famous names, dropped casually. From Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan to Eisenhower, Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy brothers. Saltonstall, now 84, told his life story, from elementary school through retirement, to Edward Weeks, a former editor of the Atlantic Monthly. The book is written in an oral, conversational style. Weeks presumably asked questions to guide Saltonstall's memory and helped organize the narrative...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Memoirs From the Most Exclusive Club | 2/23/1977 | See Source »

...more than a limited number of languages in one department without a large number of faculty that are recruited gradually. But it is possible to select half a dozen to a dozen African languages on the basis of their long history of literary records, possession of extensive written or oral literature, modern usage in literature, education, commerce, and importance in philological studies and to group these languages together to form a departmental unit. Five professors who are experts in one specific area but who are able to handle several related languages can be recruited to develop a coherent curriculum along...

Author: By Ephraim Issacs, | Title: The Case For Academic Fairness | 2/22/1977 | See Source »

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