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...means you can take this course a couple of times. Yesterday, it attracted about five graduate students, although it has the potential for a great deal of mass appeal. Yesterday, Professor Moran wowed opening-day gawkers with a non-technical spiel on Mesopotamian tablets, followed by a joke which provokes laughter each time it is uttered. "Reiner obviously had an Anzu period," Moran said. The class fairly roared. May be used to fulfill distribution requirement...
...gain the floor to speak on some issue, I think it was zoning regulations in his neighborhood. Al and this man have never exchanged friendly words in my presence. As the man waited somewhat impatiently at the dock that divides up the council chambers, Al went into a rambling spiel that lasted more than 25 minutes, delving into topics as disparate as the leash law and the rising incidence of public dopesmoking. It was a sort of ad hominem filibuster, although in my assessment at the time it was a waste of time for everyone and a waste of effort...
...plus people gathered in the Tercentenary Theater on the muggy afternoon of Commencement Day 1976, June 17, to hear Moynihan address the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Alumni, they probably heard Pat Moynihan's parting shot to Harvard. Offering the domestic version of the doomsday-for-democracy spiel he perfected as U.N. ambassador, Moynihan theorized that America's "educated class" must take on the "challenge of reformation and reconstitution" to head off a "calamitous" fate at the hands of a young elite full of contempt for the liberal tradition of the West. The crowd--dominated by Harvard alumni, hardly...
...uniformed cops and 250 undercover men and women. The marquees of the porn theaters to the north are alight with titles like China Lust and Headmaster: There's Pleasure in Pain. Men at once jaunty and furtive are handing out leaflets advertising massage parlors. One spiel: "Check it out! Don't let Freud tell you what to do with it." At a recent briefing, some of the city's hosts for the convention were asked by New York officials "to do everything you can to prevent the delegates from getting mugged, so they take away a good...
Perhaps the adventurous ones had not liked Riley--she never looked me in the eye the whole time she was explaining how prolific all the Society's "brilliant" writers were, and her spiel varied somewhat with the official line. For instance, she said, "You know, of course, that Mr. Welch [Robert Welch, Founder of the Society] learned to read at age two" --the official biography says he was three. And she told me that John Birch, who was a fundamentalist missionary to China in the early 1940's and later became an intelligence agent for Gen. Clair Chennault in China...