Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstrate his point, Granieri and Ford placed a blue square in his window in quiet mockery of the pink triangles which other students displayed to indicate their support for gays. "People didn't want to sit at tables with them at dinner because they were the two 'homophobes,'" says roommate Jonathan S. Miller...
...They are perfectly competent to sit on the Board of Overseers," Wolff says. "At no time have we called into question the legitimacy of their interest in Harvard's affairs, and that's just outrageous of [Egan]. Simple decency and courtesy would require him to do the same...
Those who come to view Commencement, however, are not necessarily guaranteed a place to sit. According to the University Marshal's office, approximately 20,000 passes to the Yard have been distributed, leaving some 1000 ticket-holders to view graduation ceremonies from the steps of Widener or University Hall...
...mixed in with The Journal of Sex Research and Havelock Ellis' class texts on sexuality, are other books. Bound volumes of Playboy sit quietly next to The Groupsex Tapes and Great Bordellos of the World: An Illustrated History. Others have titles like Meat: How Men Look, Act, Walk, Talk, Dress, Undress, Taste and Smell...
...peaceful character of the sit-in was a tribute to the political skills of the student leaders. When three youths defaced a huge portrait of Mao in the square with blotches of red and black paint, students handed the vandals over to the People's Armed Police for punishment and replaced the portrait. The three best-known leaders of the protest, who proved to be almost as elusive as their political elders meeting in the western hills, are Guo Haifeng, 23, a graduate student in international politics at Peking University; Wang Dan, 20, a history major at Peking University...