Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first few months on the job, listeners to the Times radio station WQXR were astonished to hear a London lisp on the evening news: "Thith ith Cloive Bawneth, dawnthe cvitic of the New Yawk Timeth." A put-on, many decided. But the speech defect was real. The speaker, moreover, was as straight as a line of type. After shedding his first wife of ten years, Barnes married Patricia Winckley, a lithe balletomane who looked like a swan on leave from St. James's Park. In New York, the Barneses and their two children, Christopher, 7, and Maya, 5, settled...
Everyman Figure. The task is beyond him. Eventually he presents his publisher with the jumbled chronicle of another American prisoner who also survived the raid, as well as some of the horrors of peace and prosperity. Too archly named Billy Pilgrim, the second survivor is hardly a real character-"there are almost no characters in this book," Vonnegut says, "because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces." But he does very well as something between a consumer-age Candide and a Vonnegut Everyman figure...
...statement Pusey told the demonstrators that the "question of replacing ROTC scholarships by other scholarships is not a real issue, for this question would be resolved by the scholarship committees of the various faculties if and when the need for such considerations becomes a reality...
...that the administration called the police, they gave us the chance to have a taste of what outside society (might we call it the "real world"?) is like; we had a slight exposure to the suffering that black men, or coal miners, or striking factory workers, or draftees face every day. Rather than condemn the University administration, I think we should actually be grateful to them for giving us perhaps the most valid educational experience we could have had during all our years here. Barbara Brandt Research assistant, Graduate School of Design
...once the real takes began, the problems came out in force. Not only were there long periods when no cars appeared, but when they did, the drivers more often than not looked into the camera, ruining the shot. Once, a car ahead of the jeep stopped to give Nora a ride...