Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...situation was deliberately set and ripe for overt trouble. The `revolutionary movement' was in part funded by Harvard College itself (which chose not to complain when college supplies were diverted to radical uses such as mimeograph paper and ink). Known communists were admitted as students to Radcliffe and Harvard, and the rest is history...
...each organization had preserved some form of identification−either a private greeting that members gave each other or special berets or insignia they were permitted to wear. Fights that normally would have remained disputes between two individuals exploded into confrontations between the exclusively black gangs. The grapevine was ripe with ominous rumors about a mass confrontation. But "no one realized that someone might lose his life," said John ("Shaka") Parker, an editor of the prison newsletter...
...bottom somewhere else." Since then he has found the life of a college president so agreeable that he declares he has "no set agenda, no personal plan for my life," and he talks of staying on until the job is no longer challenging−perhaps when he reaches the ripe...
...BROTHER SUN, SISTER MOON, I seldom see you, seldom hear your tune," warbles Donovan, the unseen balladeer whom Franco Zeffirelli has enlisted to lend a whiff of flower power to this over ripe version of the life of St. Francis of Assisi. Zeffirelli's work looks like a Sun day-school coloring book: everything is glowingly photogenic, including poverty, and leprosy. His St. Francis (Graham Faulkner) is a dewy, light-stepping youth who recruits the young men of Assisi the way a rock singer might round up a band. Their rebellion against the opulent hypocrisy they...
...years, U.S. companies have been expanding overseas with Napoleonic gusto, swallowing up local firms from Stockholm to Singapore. Now a counterthrust is gathering momentum. European and Japanese businessmen are beginning to see the U.S. as a vast market ripe for exploitation; they are rushing to open Stateside banks, factories and distribution centers...