Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Overseers have evolved into a tangential and powerless organ. Members usually rubber-stamp major decisions and concentrate on informally advising academic departments. Their agenda has become limited and largely inconsequential, their proceedings have become shrouded in secrecy, their members are ordered not to speak to the media, or by extension to the public...
...month-long student demonstrations reached a dramatic climax early last week when a crowd of several hundred students at Peking University burned about 100 copies of the Peking Daily, the local party organ. Some made makeshift kites out of the newspaper, set them on fire and sailed them out dormitory windows. The students charged that the Daily had given a "distorted" picture of their movement. Three days later some 200 African students, who have complained recently about racism among their hosts, staged a twelve-mile march through the capital's streets. By week's end, though, the tough new government...
...affronted by what he calls the hiring of a "uterus for nine months." He maintains, "In the old days you could buy a whole person -- a slave -- to do with as you wished. Now, if these surrogate contracts are accepted, you'll be able to buy just a specific organ...
...section now merely as a volunteer. "It's been more difficult for him to replace me, because I'm still here, than for me to step aside," says Vanderveen. But his friends in the choir say singing means more to Vanderveen than he realizes. His key ring is an organ stop labeled "choral bass...
Buswell is unaccustomed to choral singing, and he drowns out everybody else. A few singers simply stop in the middle of a hymn, overwhelmed. Barber glares. Privately, he tells Buswell that he is even louder than the organ -- to no avail. Finally, at a Sunday rehearsal, Barber dresses Buswell down: "Look, your pianissimo is not our pianissimo. Turn it way down." In the hallway afterward, Buswell, abashed, tells the other singers, "I guess I really blew it in there...