Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoes into the infield in disgust. He had been doing well. "He's running 48 seconds," Moses said. "It's tough." American Heptathlon Record Holder Jane Frederick inexplicably failed at the high jump and was out. The 800 meters had two unexpected casualties: Don Paige and James Robinson. There is a quadrennial argument against do-or-die trials in favor of committee selections. But it might be recalled that when two eminent U.S. hurdlers faltered in the 1976 trials, a particularly golden moment of the Games was provided by one of the three outsiders, Edwin Moses...
...also had an acute sense of what would play on American TV. On Saturday, shortly before Reagan received an honorary doctor of laws degree at University College of the National University of Ireland, 2,000 faculty, students and other protesters attended a rival "deconferring ceremony" at which Marian Robinson, a visiting American professor who happens to be a cousin of Nancy Reagan's, read a citation denouncing the President's nuclear arms policies; three holders of honorary doctorates returned their degrees in protest. The demonstrators were peaceful, and they aimed their Irish ire at the Administration...
...place on the ticket would have enormous symbolic power. Ann Lewis, like some other feminists, makes the Jackie Robinson analogy when she talks about a woman vice president. "If Branch Rickey had asked people whether to put a black on the field, would they have ever told him, 'Now'? Putting Jackie Robinson in a Dodgers uniform was good for the Dodgers, good for baseball and good for the country...
Margaret Y. Han, in her piece entitled "Hello, Mrs. Robinson," seems to interpret the recent media emphasis on the desirability of the older woman as something of a step forward for women: a recognition that a woman past the age of 35 should not be devalued as a possible romantic partner simply because of age. The media's shift from an emphasis on only the very young woman as sexually exciting is noteworthy, but does it really signal or promote a change in attitudes toward women? Joan Collins, Vicki LaMotta, and other mentioned are all "older" women who look like...
Bass and Arthur R. Kroeber '84 placed them there after weighting them down with gravel. Nevertheless, several of the surviving penguins migrated from the grass to the facade of Robinson, the gate fronting Quincy St. and the trees in the quadrangle...