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Word: reads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weird aspect of the utterances voiced in that room, though, was that these fellows actually thought they could become rich, $41 million rich, by working for Dillon Read or Kidder Peabody...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: ENDPAPER | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...quality whatsoever are released around the time of the Academy Awards--coveted awards have notoriously short memories. Thus, in this fallow cinematic period, it not advisable to see any of Hollywood's newest offering. so why not stay home, indulge in your favorite beverage or other combustible, and read the rest of our magazine. Very carefully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editors Note: | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

Didn't they watch Coming Together at 2:30 a.m.? Didn't they read the business Section of the Sunday Times? Didn't they peruse the pages of the Wall Street Journal...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: ENDPAPER | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

Towards the end of the long summer, several of us revealed our belief that the only way to go was to learn as much as we could working for whites, and then go out on our own. Dillon Read, Kidder Peabody, and Merrill Lynch were the enemy, buttresses of the subtle institutional racism that everyone keeps saying has replaced overt racism as the real problem facing Blacks now. It was taken as a given that within the corporate structure Blacks were never going to rise high enough to achieve real financial independence, or get Panasonic multivision systems. Well, maybe those...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: ENDPAPER | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...have an asymmetrical, dyed hairstyle and tend to wear clothing from the 20s. Sometimes I wonder aloud why we are even sitting in this class, for indeed we are all going to die someday, and then what? I think section discussions are all so pedestrian, for I once read a book by T.S. Eliot and then debated its relevance to the underground music movement over a cup of coffee and a clove cigarette at a nameless cafe with a man wearing a beret-like hat. I too sometimes wear a beret-like...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG: | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

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