Word: sit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atmosphere at Passim is Bohemiam, sophisticated, and collegiate. By day old people with beards sit and smoke pipes, middle-aged people with beards sit and read Sartre, and young people sit and grow beards. Unless, of course, they're women--in which case they do the above without the beards...
...LAST THING today's acheivement-oriented, disco cool generation wants to see is a movie vaunting sixties nostalgia. Flower Child Groovies, Peace On Earth, and Power to the People are ridiculed slogans. Can anyone take Jerry Rubin seriously when in 1979 he summons BU students to sit-ins and protest rallies, regardless of cause...
...some surprises and positive reinforcement to quell the critics' questions, Scott and Lynn are becoming the answers. Neither performed well last year, and Lynn has been limping along with sore ankles and bruised knees and crushed elbows since 1977. Then Lynn asked for more money, and Scott wanted to sit out some games because he was "tired," and all the radio talk show types started talking about "attitude...
Credit Lucky Scott, and credit her husband who loves the game so much that he still dared to sit naked in the clubhouse after going 0-for-41 at the plate last summer. Now he still sits naked and--less several rolls of fat--he sits more comfortably...
...these tensions grew, the prelude to the occupation of University Hall came in the form of a sit-in at Paine Hall in December 1968. One hundred SDS sympathisizers refused to move from the building, forcing the cancellation of a special Faculty meeting scheduled to discuss ROTC. The Paine Hall incident had a fairly peaceful ending--the students handed in their bursar cards after the meeting was cancelled and left the building. But the protest set in motion the faculty revolution...