Word: singed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different from high school--whether this is due simply to the fact that Bolster was still living with her parents, or because she was beset by Victorian college rules that rendered Radcliffe something of a glorified girls' boarding school. At the Anne Radcliffe Buffet this week, the alumnae will sing a ditty composed of the myriad rules contained in the little red book with which every freshman was expected to become familiar--a world of structure reduced to song. Speaking with various members of the Class, it appears that their attitudes toward such petty restrictions as being required to wear...
...musicians the urge to keep going, to remain in the spotlight, must be even stronger than it is for the athletes. In sports someone will eventually beat you--even Muhammad Ali learned that. But in music you can go on as long as you are able to play or sing. All you have to do is remain popular. The Band's decision to hang it up, at least to hang it up in public, seems even more laudable. The group may well have been sick of the road, as Robertson indicated, but it isn't easy to give up your...
...some cases the preposterous plots are exceeded by the presumptuous flackery. Templeton's publishers announce that during his promotional tour he will "break the last taboo on national TV." Rader's novel was unveiled at a Manhattan disco with a gospel sing-along starring Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, William F. Buckley and Walter Cronkite. Stein & Day let it be known that The Final Conclave was printed under extraordinary security lest it be "suppressed." By whom? The publisher didn't say; surely a banning in Boston or a burning in Butte would have hyped the book...
...long time with somebody and that man gets up and leaves and another guy comes in--and you have to do it again with exactly the same feeling. What an analogy. It sounds like I would even consider it. We're not like other groups--other people sing so that it's not just one person pouring their heart...
...villages have instead been the victims. Similarly, the same sort of defensive psychological mechanisms have enabled the courageous, homeless Palestinians and war-stricken Lebanese to withstand such perpetual agony. Just as Iraelis try to forget the danger by placing their fate in God's will, so do victimized Arabs sing and pray to Allah...