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Word: oscars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quarter to midnight on a recent evening or 2345, as the police call it: Student Security guard Linus Z. Gelber '85-'87 reports to the Harvard University Police Station at 29 Garden ST. for his all-night Oscar 1 and 2 shift at the Radcliffe Quad...

Author: By Andre T. Dryansky, | Title: Life as a Student Security Guard | 11/27/1985 | See Source »

...have some fun." "We Are the Clash," the third track, resorts to some of the most disgusting synthesizer misanthropy on the album. It attempts to assert that this, and not Jones's band, is the "real" Clash: "We ain't gonna be treated like trash...We are the Clash!" Oscar the Grouch couldn't have said it better...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Full Of It | 11/23/1985 | See Source »

...James Levine, who has been Battle's mentor since 1973. "All voices differ, and there are lots of beautiful voices, but hers has a unique personality and a unique timbre." Others echo Levine's praise. Kurt Herbert Adler, former general director of the San Francisco Opera, cast Battle as Oscar the page in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera in 1977. Remembers Adler: "After we auditioned her, I wrote in my notes: 'bombshell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At the Head of the Class | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...shouldn't allow the CIA to recruit on campus, any more than we should allow the Mafia to recruit for their thugs," said COCA member Oscar Hernandez, a graduate student in physics...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: 40 Students Protest CIA Visit | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

...controversial movement got its start at Fife's Southside Church on the second anniversary of the assassination of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador. The archbishop, because of his bold advocacy of the poor in his country, was gunned down in 1980 while saying Mass in San Salvador. Since then, Sanctuary has drawn support from various religious bodies, including American Baptists, Presbyterians, United Methodists and the United Church of Christ. The movement has also been endorsed by Conservative Judaism's Rabbinical Assembly. Pastors and congregation members who have sheltered refugees within their churches maintain that when these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bringing Sanctuary to Trial | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

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