Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cyclotron Laboratory employees are taking a University-wide collection for the orphaned five-year-old daughter of a lab worker, Mrs. Lois Byers, killed April 28. Contributions may be sent to Hiawatha Brown, supervisor, Cyclotron Laboratory, 44 Oxford...
...those windy words that are foisted on the public by military bureaucrats, interminably parroted by the press and kept in the vernacular long after losing any real meaning. Though the word-let alone its antonym, de-escalation-appears in neither Webster's Second nor the Oxford English dictionary, it has become synonymous with the U.S. commitment to Viet Nam. More specifically, it has become a pejorative term encompassing any American increase in the level of fighting...
Accident. A metal-crunching car crash shatters the silence of a warm Oxford night. In the wreck lie a boy (Michael York), mangled and dead, and a beautiful girl (Jacqueline Sassard), in shock but uninjured. A university don (Dirk Bogarde) runs to the car, recognizes its occupants as his students, and gives the girl his hand. As she emerges, she steps on the dead boy's face-an act that symbolizes what is past in her life and what is to come in the film. The don takes the girl into his home, puts her to sleep...
...Bogarde coldly proceeds to make love to the benumbed girl, then smuggles her back to the safety of her dorm, protecting her from the police who will never know that it was she who drunkenly drove the boy to his death. At film's end, the princess leaves Oxford to fly home. Baker, the self-confident Don Juan, proves to be an ineffectual wan don, unable to stop her. Bogarde resignedly returns to his pipe, his books, his stoic, sad-eyed wife...
...legislature greeted Lurleen's-or George's-speech with joyous Rebel whoops and will doubtless give her whatever she requests, including an expanded state police force. Thus Alabama may well be inviting a confrontation between federal and state authority, comparable to those at Little Rock and Oxford, Miss. The Wallaces, with George's third-party presidential candidacy firmly in mind, clearly would like nothing better...