Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lowenstein's greatest appeal was always to college-age men and women. He has been called the "world's oldest student leader," a "pied-piper" of young idealists. He enjoyed young people and befriended them, treated them as adults; it was not rare to find Allard Lowenstein, hours after a speech at a university, squatting Indian-style on the floor of a dormitory common room discussing, in an "uncannily lucid manner, what must be done about Rhodesia or Vietnam or Mississippi or Harlem." And young people identified with his "casual, rumpled eloquence" and followed him--to Mississippi in the Freedom...
Benjamin recalls one collector of rare autographs who verified, wholly by accident, that his priceless document containing the signatures of all 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence was genuine. A hurricane had caused the paper to be submerged in water for five days. When he retrieved it, the owner found to his relief that all the signatures remained clear and bright. They had been written with iron-gall ink on rag paper...
...fact that we get most of our humorous entertainment these days from television, and occasionally movies. Live comedy is a rare pleasure most people have seldom experienced. The Collaboration's combination of improv and skits is--if not the highest quality entertainment around--certainly an evening you won't find anywhere else in Boston...
...dollars to dozens of organizations with money collected from student term bills. These funds in turn translated into publications, symposiums and projects which reached all students repeatedly. Look closely issues of publications and posters from clubs without special thanks to the Undergraduate Council for a crucial grant are rare exceptions...
While such rare performance by Euro-American students would be viewed as highly laudable, it has provoked poorly concealed negative reactions toward Asian-Americans on the part of some. These reactions have prompted an increasing number of television commentaries, and newspaper and magazine articles which are ostensibly benign cultural profiles but in reality are most often subtle fear-tactics designed to focus the attention of the white majority on this issue and provoke counter-measures. The media marionettes and their manipulators most often emphasize the high number of Asian-Americans entering the prestigious colleges, their projected "disproportionate representation" in university...