Word: semis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first night on Miami Beach I found myself in a grunjy teen-age hangout semi-filled with its regulars. Music from a tape-recorder on a table in the center of the room with a huge lampshade hanging right over, filled with a disturbingly weak bulb. The music was unmentionable top-40 staple. The girl in rapacious charge of the tape-recorder brutally cut short "Hey Jude" saying "I don't like that song at all" to a general chorus of approval. Walls covered with Gauguinesque posters and Peanuts homilies. The kids didn't dance but twitched spasmodically on their...
...Board's recommendation that five of the Paine Hall demonstrators be forced to leave school, the Faculty avoided an irrational and inflammatory gesture. And by voting to reevaluate it own procedures at a meeting next week before the ROTC issue is decided, the Faculty recognized that its tradition of semi-secret meetings may need immediate reform...
...years, although he had never owned property on the Key itself. While he does not say much about his reasons for liking the place, he has spoken in general terms about its nice weather and its informality. Perhaps the most important factor in his decision to settle there semi-permanently is his long friendship with Bachelor Financier C. G. (Bebe) Rebozo, 57. Millionaire Rebozo's house is considered part of Nixon's new beachfront compound...
...promoted the lunacies of the Cultural Revolution have been replaced at China's controls by the more conservative army. They believe that the army, which was one of the principal targets of the radical Red Guards, is wreaking its vengeance by shipping the young hooligans off to semi permanent exile, and in the name of their revered Mao, no less. In some provinces, most of the guardsmen find them selves shipped directly to army-run communes, which are especially tough...
...should therefore recruit. You know Harvard's present answer to this question. Do you like the answer? Are there better ones? Are they basically correct and yet is there too much preference shown to preppies and alumni sons? I think this last is the right idea. The semi-unintentional result is institutionalized class bias being aided and perpetuated by conscious policies which could be changed...