Word: rufus
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While it is interesting that Emory edged out Harvard last year, it is not especially significant, Rufus W. Peebles Jr. '61, associate director of the Harvard College Fund, said yesterday. He noted that Emory used $25 million, or 55 per cent of its $46 million, to expand university-owned hospital facilities, leaving Emory only $21 million to apply to strictly educational purposes...
...music is mostly mediocre. Some of it, like that of Isaac Hayes, who breathes out his lyrics like Holy Writ, is clumsy and pretentious. Rufus Thomas is the only one who really makes things work. He performs Funky Chicken, strutting smartly about the stage splendidly attired in shocking-pink cape with matching shirt and Bermuda shorts and white vinyl boots as if he will never come home to roost. It is a performance of ebullient self-parody, one that the kids in the stadium seem to enjoy...
...Alumni are now aware that colleges are in bad financial straits," Rufus W. Peebles '64, associate director of the Harvard College Fund said yesterday...
...other was shot "over there between the bushes and the dining hall"; the tone suggested the danger of any black man being in the bushes. In any case, the defense maintained, the shootings had been provoked by "agitators." "Were these agitators bent and determined on violence?" asked Rufus Creek more. "Well, I think they were...
...Geranium" and "The Last Judgment" old age is Dudley's leprosy; in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" it is Lucynell Crater's retarded, overweight daughter; in "Everything that Rises Must Converge" it is Julian's mother's bigotry; in "The Lame Shall Enter First" it is Rufus Johnson's club foot; and in "Parker's Back" it is Parker's tattoos. These disfigured are always the prophets and voyeurs of sin. Flannery O'Conner draws clear, black lines from the sterility, the dust and the dead-beat poverty of the southern landscape to the landscape...