Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...making one of his rare public appearances to speak at Commencement exercises this afternoon, Solzhenitsyn again enters the glare of publicity that he so obviously finds distasteful. He is a man who wishes to let his books and his other accomplishments speak for themselves. Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, he was prevented from leaving the Soviet Union because of his staunch anti-Communist beliefs, yet still managed to create a worldwide audience for his views. Solzhenitsyn's criticism of the Soviet government and his advocacy of a return to imperial absolutism earned him expulsion from...
...whole lot of interaction between the staff assistants even on a purely social level, Gibson says. "Sometimes it'll happen that two or three of us will end up in the same place at the same time and kibitz for a few minutes but it's rare. It's not that it's a tense or intense kind of place but it just doesn't lend itself to that," she says. "One person to one office really sets the tone," Gibson adds. In this respect, Gibson's experience at Widener, where about ten people shared one large office, was markedly...
...battle-hungry members of the world's most-storied fighting unit, last week's 650-paratroop rescue mission in Shaba represented a rare chance to relive a glorious and bloodied past. Not since 1970, when a group of commandos put down a modest rebellion in the African Republic of Chad, had the Foreign Legion seen action in the field. Nowadays, most legionnaires spend their time on such mundane tasks as putting out forest fires in Corsica, constructing roads in French Guiana and guarding French nuclear testing sites in Tahiti...
...series. State-run retail enterprises took the unusual step of advertising color-TV sets in major newspapers. Price: $520 in hard-to-come-by hard currency, the equivalent of more than three months' wages for the average citizen. The event even moved the political weekly Polityka to a rare spoof on the Communist Manifesto. Cracked an editorial: "The specter of football is haunting Poland...
...cheerful, creative, motley-looking student body. Beating Exeter in football and hockey is no longer the student body's chief interest; Andover, like other schools, has seen an explosion of interest in art, music, drama and dance. Boy-girl friendships are easygoing, though formal dating is rare and romances do not last long in the fishbowl of a residential school. "The school used to be rigorous but humorless," says English Department Head Kelly Wise. "Now there is more laughter and joy and excitement than there was a few years ago." And every bit as much schoolwork. The days when...