Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife and five children from their village to escape the fighting. "First the guerrillas came," he explains. "A spy told the police, who came with machine guns and killed 18 of our people. When the guerrillas saw what had happened, they opened fire and more people were killed. We left the next day with only our blankets...
...with nature.") Even now, Allen does not live up to his means. His home is attractive, but not opulent, containing more books and records than anything else. His wardrobe of plaid shirts, jeans and beat-up jackets is the same he wears in his movies. "Mariel Hemingway just saw Annie Hall again and called me up, amazed that I wore the same clothes she sees me in all the time," Allen recalls. "Actually I wear some of the same clothes in both Annie Hall and Manhattan. I'm still wearing a shirt I wore in Play It Again...
...there was another, more sensational, criticism raised against the Faculty vote: that it was born of the logic of fear. As Rosovsky's reference to Munich implied, many on the Faculty and around the country were appalled by what they saw as the capitulation of the nation's most prestigious university to the demands of students protesters--demands enforced by what some viewed as an atmosphere of psychological intimidation. The charge of capitulation inspired much heated debate: an associate professor at the University of Texas went so far as to ban from his classes all books written by Harvard professors...
...Crimson stickwomen saw their three game winning streak go up in smoke yesterday afternoon as the perennially tough University of New Hampshire Wildcats outscored them, 13-6, to remain undefeated this season...
Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government, says that when he first encountered Harvard as a graduate student in the '50s it was a serene place: he saw no widespread student dissatisfaction, but rather a "world of younger faculty and graduate students, politically and intellectually very exciting." With the advent of the mid-'60s, however, that serenity disappeared. "That world hadn't changed." Walzer recalls. "What had changed was the war and general politicization of life that flooded into the University and ran up against a fairly rigid and not terribly sensitive administrative structure...