Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that gets only four inches of precipitation a year. At Fort Yukon in the vast central plateau region, temperatures plummet from 100° in the summer to 75° below zero in the winter. To travel from the state capital of Juneau to the outermost Aleutian island of Attu is to span 2,000 miles and four time zones. Yet Alaska has fewer people than any other state: 293,000, the equivalent of Akron...
...intimate diary as well as a public record of his subtle intuition, his patiently probing intellect, his will. Now Pierre Schneider, an American critic and journalist who works in Paris, has put Matisse's biography on the walls of the Grand Palais, where some 250 pictures span Matisse's prodigious life work. It is the most important show in Europe this year...
...Spic and Span. As ever, Wolfe prefers fangs to hatchets. "The Panther women are trucking on into the Bernsteins' Chinese yellow duplex, amid the sconces, silver bowls full of white and lavender anemones, and uniformed servants serving drinks and Roquefort cheese morsels rolled in crushed nuts." Then down come the incisors. "But it's all right. They're white servants, not Claude and Maud, but South Americans. Obviously, if you are giving a party for the Black Panthers . . . you can't have a Negro butler and maid." But then Felicia Bernstein (Felicia Montealegre that...
...frightened parents-are customarily welcomed on the grounds of public utility. Each Other's Victims will probably be so welcomed too. At any rate, the author apparently makes this assumption. He sedulously offers nuggets of information: "One physician estimates that five years is probably a long life span for a practicing speed freak." He also hazards scary opinion: "There are something like seven million college students in the country, and God knows how many millions of kids in high school, probably five, six times as many. I would guess that of that total alone, an absolute minimum...
...such a fashion, the Faculty worked its way through two "no confidence" votes in President Pusey, two ROTC resolutions, several Harvard housing proposals, two scholarship proposals, and several points on the implementation of the Committee of 15-all in the span of two weeks. Of the major strike votes, only the Afro-American Studies resolutions did not come from caucus negotiations...