Word: slips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faculty members did speak up when CUE debated the Core Curriculum last year, Henderson observes. "When the Harvard national image is at stake," he rightly reasons, the Faculty finds its voice. But when it comes to purely student issues such as study abroad, faculty members slip back into the background...
...first Carter took the newsmen's repeated references to fellow Democrat Ted Kennedy with good humor. When a reporter made the increasingly common slip of referring to "President Kennedy," Carter responded with a grin: "I think it is Senator Kennedy." But when one young TV newswoman paraphrased a Kennedy criticism at considerable length, the President turned understandably testy. "Is this a campaign speech for him?" asked Carter. He then proceeded to give a pretty good campaign speech...
...hard, as Barth noted, to grasp the scale and meaning of the murder of millions of human beings. After statements like Castro's it is harder still. Extraordinary acts of murder slip by us, easing past our dulled sensibilities. Millions have died in Cambodia, as, it seems, will millions more. Persistent reports confirm that the Brazilian government is massacring the Amazon Indians to permit exploitation of the Brazilian hinterland. How can we describe these atrocities, how can we summon up the will to intervene, as the U.N. says we have the right to do, if "genocide" is just another lame...
...door and ran his hand along the wall. He silently counted the ceramic tiles, seven across from the right wall, four up from the floor. Liddy picked at the soft plaster until the tile came loose. Again using one of his handmade tools, he removed the tile and slipped it into his coat pocket. Liddy plunged three fingers into the vacant hollow and withdrew a small white paper slip. In the same motion he placed the paper in his pocket, replaced the tile, and tiptoed back to the hall. He didn't want the Hungarian cleaning lady to surprise...
Close your eyes and slip back in time. It's the high school homecoming game. You are 16, the band is grinding out an off-key school fight song, the cheerleaders' pom-poms flutter in the breeze...