Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweetness. Reporting for one of the five groups later that morning, a trustee told the gathering, "It was mainly the trustees speaking," and proceeded to read a list of more or less specific criticisms of the constitution ranging from direct rejection of the clause stipulating student government autonomy (In the old RGA constitution any change in the constitution had to be approved by the College Council) to disapproval on the wording...
HUMOR needs constant airing. The main reason why the Lampoon never makes anyone really laugh out loud (I hope The Proposition cast won't be too offended by this comparison) is that its pieces, though written by individuals, must be read to the rest of the organization for peer approval. Thus there is a tendency not to include anything strikingly different from what has been accepted before for fear that someone will frown and say, "I don't think that's funny." This is why most Lampoon pieces might just as well be written by the same, mildly amusing...
...side and stapled together by hand) derives from the fresh and deliberate lack of pretense which has become The Island's trademark. This makes it an appropriate outlet for its material: "It allows us to print things which might not be perfect, but which ought to be read," as one of the three editors explains...
...novel's subject matter has already produced advance sales of more than 40,000 copies. The thought has even occurred to Vidal that it could make a movie. "I showed Myra to Jane Fonda," he says. "She read it four times, and then said, I don't think I know how to play...
...Success in dealing with unknown ciphers is measured by these four things in the order named: perseverance, careful methods of analysis, intuition, luck. The ability at least to read the language of the original text is very desirable but not essential." Such is the opening sentence of Parker Hitt's Manual for the Solution of Military Ciphers...