Word: palely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late 1960s and early '70s would today raise but a murmur of protest among a small handful of students. Issues like Harvard's involvement with the Defense Department or its alleged connections to the Central Intelligence Agency or the University's ownership of stock in Gulf Oil pale in most student minds when compared to problems like floaters or overcrowding in the Houses. Yet, the CRR, much like the baton in a relay race, is an issue that students have passed on to freshman class after freshman class since 1971, and it is only now that it appears that...
...problems pale when compared with those of some of the people I will receive cards from. One woman I know keeps the imprinters busy; in the past decade, she divorced three times, switching from her married name to her maiden name on Christmas cards. Then there are men who consider themselves married to other men. Will they send me a card, and what kind...
...Milk Train Doesn 't Stop Here Any More was not a completely negligible drama on its first New York showing in 1963, but its doctored version one year later was comatose. Now Williams has given Summer and Smoke a kind of coronary bypass, but the patient looks pale...
...without pretension, and hardly displace air at all. They read as a shimmer of color, sails in the light. Off the beach, past the rattling leaves of the sea grapes, two ambiguous planes meet: the shallow coastal water, slicked with weed, taking the light like satin; and the pale sky, colored the rinsed blue of a Tiepolo ceiling. A pelican lumbers by, just airborne, printing its ragged prehistoric silhouette on the fabric of the scene. Once again, as for the past two decades, Rauschenberg's art drains back into its source, the world...
Rhodesia's 274,000 whites well recognize that the guerrilla fighting will probably get worse if the conference fails. Their mood has grown more anxious in the past month. In Salisbury, a Baptist minister intoned on a radio service that "surely these are times not for pale faces or trembling knees." Rhodesian President John Wrathall called on all his countrymen to pray every day for the success of the conference...