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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brought the Georgians to power. The struggle, waged chiefly in and around a handful of Georgetown drawing rooms, is over who will become the new doyennes of capital society. The contest has some importance as well as entertainment value in Washington, a company town in which hostesses constitute a sort of fifth estate; they bring together the men (and women) of power to get to know each other better and sometimes to make history at the dinner table...
Neruda was a Chilean poet, and it was not he, but evil and arrogant men in the United States, who toyed with freedom and replaced it with terrorism and Nazi-like brutality. Neruda's life and his poetry stood as a crusade against just this sort of criminality...
...Period." As I see it there are two issues at hand here. First we need to ask what kind of miserable calender system bestowed such a monster as Reading Period on us undergrads, and second we should wonder whether this animal, since it does thrive among us, serves any sort of useful purpose...
...Roscoe Brown Jr., director of New York University's Institute of Afro-American Affairs: "More and more people realize that we have to help ourselves. Local groups are getting together to do things in neighborhoods-fighting crime, getting baseball teams going, raising money for hospitals and libraries. That sort of thing is very encouraging...
Rees left behind in northern California a bride of eight months named Renee, who was baffled by his sudden turn to crime. She described him as a dependable, gentle sort who likes to "putter around the house and fool with plants." Said she: "I felt we had everything going for us. He never really complained about lack of money. I still cannot understand...