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Joni's tune in New York is captured in her first album, Song to a Seagull. It features a complete cast: rude cabby, disillusioned divorcee, lonely transient and demanding lover-all of whom rise above stereotype to complement the leather-and-lace personality of 24-year-old Joni Mitchell. In Cactus Tree, a song Joni describes as a "grocery list of men I've liked, or loved, or left behind," she weighs her freedom against the merit of several suitors before dismissing them...
Harvard may win a national championship this season. Whatever the record of this fine team may be, I intend to enjoy watching them play, and success would please no fan more than myself. But I'm afraid I must resign myself to having my enjoyment diminished by the rude, stupid behavior of a few imbeciles who don't seem to understand what the sport is about. Sincerely, Stephen Spaulding...
Peterson said that Canaday was "very generous to give as much as he did," and said that it would be "rude" for him to have asked Canaday to bequeath any more for unexpected costs of the hall...
...committee has until Christmas to make its final report on how the new system is working. It probably will not be too harsh. "We just live in a nonjudgmental society," said Committee Chairman Bradley Efron, a professor of statistics. But today's graduates may be in for a rude shock when they discover that in the workaday world, not everyone can count...
...black teachers at South Boston High were beaten and their cars were smashed, the incident was ignored at WGBH-TV, the local public broadcast outlet, because station managers considered it to be inflammatory. Editors at WCVB-TV deleted from a film clip a shot of a white student making rude gestures in the presence of black children. A story about the arrival of a Ku Klux Klan officer in Boston that appeared in an early edition of the Evening Globe last Thursday was missing in later editions...