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Word: sic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike Chekhov's Ward 6 in the clas sic of that name, from which Tarsis drew his title and which was an attack on the abysmal physical conditions in Czarist asylums. Ward 7 seemed almost heaven to some of the inmates by comparison with the wretchedness of Russian life outside. "Personally I'm very happy," explained one of them to Almazov: "I'm fed. I'm clothed. Nobody preaches Communism at me. Do you realize? No propaganda, and you can say what you like! Where else can you do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: The Inconvenient Citizens | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...participants "breast-beaters who had never been there [Viet Nam]" and chided them as Ivory Tower observers who "never bothered to inform themselves about grim little Ho Chi Minh's brilliant success as a cold-headed murder of his early resistance comrades." He concluded that "perhaps American progression [sic] needs to be returned to its former preoccupation with hard facts...

Author: By Jonathan Schell, | Title: Hard Fact | 4/20/1965 | See Source »

Three young ladies, au natural (sic), were being chased around the room by two Harvard lads intent upon study. The bare facts indicated that the boys were likewise nude. And not too sober. The girls were over and under the beds...

Author: By Jonathan Schell, | Title: The Real Harvard | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

Once inside Lowell Lecture Hall the leaders of the group hoisted their banser, "We Support Berkely (sic) Free Speech," on the black board. "Take it down quick before they photograph it," one student cried suddenly, "Berkeley is spelled wrong." A Brandeis co-ed supplied a red stick of lipstick, and an "e" was inserted between...

Author: By Parker Donham, | Title: 200 Join In Protest Rally For Berkeley | 12/9/1964 | See Source »

...recent editorial, you declare that "the generally educated man should be doing nothing less than preparing to organize his perceptions [sic]. He should learn what it is like to put on the scientist's thinking cap, or the behavioral scientist's, or the historian's, or the humanist's." This Thinking Cap Theory, while well presented, strikes me as seriously deficient in its assumptions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defining a General Education | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

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