Word: semis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...persists be cause it is true. Angus Mack Gaither, 18, of Thompsonville, Ill., lost his father in 1968. Angus, his mother and his elder brother Jewell took over the management of the family's 400-acre farm. In 1971 Angus' brother had a stroke, leaving him a semi-invalid, and the burden of running the farm fell to Angus and his mother. Angus rose at 5:00 a.m. to do his chores, and some times worked in the fields-raising soy beans, corn, cattle and hogs-until midnight. During the day, he maintained an almost-straight-A average...
...Crimson used to have a semi-annual Oldies Quiz. It would have been easy popular to do another one, but nostalgia ain't what it used to be. Neither is President Nixon, so here's your chance to kick him while he's down...
That night, the judges, two professors from local colleges, select forty-five works in different media. Cooper comments afterwards that one of the judges must have been color-blind--the one that awarded a prize to a large constructed painting. The painting consists of two semi-circular canvases in between which four oblong panels dangle from brightly colored plastic chains. On each panel is the letter L, O, V or E, each in a different loud color. Over the letters are painted objects like sea shells and flowers...
...alliance--is not satisfied. The construction workers on girders are still throwing nails at the academics below. Meanwhile, doesn't Coleman cut a suspicious figure? He plunges into the lower-class welter, frolicking in ditches and finding new muscles in his back (and also finding himself), keeping a semi-stupid diary and publishing Blue-Collar Journal, warning us against any politics in ditches...
...turning the country into a police state: newspapers were censored, telephones tapped and xenophobia was so encouraged that uncomfortable foreign businessmen went home. Today the concentration camps are empty. Moreover, fewer telephones are tapped, and the secret police are at least less visible. The new editor of the semi official Cairo daily al Ahram is Ali Amin, a journalist who spent nine years in exile during the Nasser era because he opposed the regime...