Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history professor, Suwelo's deceased uncle. He meets them when he goes to dispose of his uncle's property. They bring him food and mow the lawn, and when he invites them in to talk, he finds that his dinner is being cooked by a mother goddess who has spent countless lifetimes in Africa and America, and mowing his lawn is her longtime companion...
Much of the 90-minute debate was spent discussing whether institutions of higher education should be involved with military programs. In an opening statement, Felicia A. Kornbluh '88-'89, founder of the Subterranean Review and a member of the Anti-ROTC Action Committee (ARAC), said that because "the military is made to fight wars, and not necessarily wars of defense," it does not belong on university campuses...
...Saturday night, Robinson and three other Brown deans spent the night in West Andrews to reassure students that the university was taking action...
...environment, I offered. "Instead, how about asking them about their habitats," he wondered. He had spent too much time learning about his pet snake...
...True, his huge murals writhing with buckskinned, blue-jeaned and gingham-clad Americans were still to be seen in situ in the Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, and the Truman Library, Independence, Mo.; his name might still be invoked in Kansas City, where his latter years were spent; and most students of American art history knew that he had been the teacher (and to no small extent, the substitute father) of Jackson Pollock at the Art Students League in New York City. But actual interest in the Michelangelo of Neosho, Mo., was fairly low, which mirrored the poor esteem into...