Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visiting his home town with his wife and children examines his bizarre behavior at a drugstore (a childhood hangout). "It seemed to him now that he had gone to the drugstore on purpose that morning. . . . It had been intended to satisfy some passing and unnamed need of his, but the adventure had cut too deep in his memory, and into what was more than mere memory . . . cut beyond all the good sense and reasonableness that made life seem worthwhile-or even tolerable." Matt finds his dark face-his hostile violent face-"a monstrous obtrusion on the relatively bright scene that...
...admitted, however, that the prospects didn't seem bright: "From what little I've heard. Harvard isn't very interested in taking in the Patriots." Yesterday, Harvard officials said that Harrison has not yet approached President Pusey for an appointment...
...effect of these desertions has been greater on the Democrats. Seven of nine New York voters are Democrats, and the liberal majority of these seem to have revolted against Procaccino, thereby gutting the party organization which traditionally has run New York...
Four of the five councilor who voted against rent control are running again; they seem to feel that the issue-volatile though it may be-has not eroded their traditional bases of support. "The people who sit out there and yell at you to do something are never the ones who really vote for you anyway," says one of the four...
...former chairman of the Afro-American Student Union at the "B" School, I am quite familiar with both the attitudes and machinations of Hokanson and his conservative sidekicks who have served as the official non-voice of student body. They seem either unwilling or incapable of providing the leadership which an increasingly activist and even "liberal"-if one can use that word-M. B. A. student faction is demanding. Apparently unwilling to concede that more and more M. B. A. students (especially black and chicano students) are determined to put an end to the Business School's splendid and serene...