Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clock news. A frat brother approaches her. "If I don't see the news I feel out of touch," she explains, rather breathlessly. "But if you want to change it to Saturday Night Live, it's O.K. with me." He does, and they sit together watching. In quiet darkness, or boozy haze, most of the conversation seems as timeless and fraudulent as ever. "You got a date?" "No babe yet. But it's early." "Well, lacrosse tryouts are coming up next week. Coach doesn't like us going in for stuff like that. It cuts your...
Though Brown scored no triumph among politicians, he did attract attention, with major interviews on all three networks and nightly appearances on the newscasts. He also made gains at a series of quiet meetings in New York. He talked with groups of blacks, Jews and business leaders. Howard M. Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress, concluded guardedly that "Brown says the right things." During a three-hour dinner with Mayor Edward Koch, Brown impressed one of the mayor's aides as being "neither flaky nor overly philosophical; he's a good politician." Nevertheless, Koch, long a Carter...
Most Harvard quarrels are conducted discreetly, cloaked by quiet bureaucratic manuevering and polite diplomatic statements. But last week, a running dispute over the role of fiction writing in the Expository Writing program surfaced and the fur began...
...activities fee if you want to live off campus? Did you know Princeton turned down a donation from the Engelhard Foundation a few years ago? Did you know the University of Pennsylvania has student trustees? By keeping us ignorant of how things work on other campuses, Harvard keeps us quiet, on the whole. By beginning communication, the conference potentially strengthens all student movements...
...support, ran unopposed for vice president a few minutes later, the 60 club members assembled in Science Center B began to suspect the presence of a slate. "It definitely looked incestuous, but it wasn't planned that way at all," Artson said later. Suddenly, what had started as a quiet, almost boring election meeting exploded into a series of shouting matches, with members telling stories of secret meetings, hidden slates, and "freshman conspiracies...