Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sobriety of reunions, say school officials, reflects the nation's changing attitudes toward education: the gentleman songster on a four-year spree has long since given way to the serious student who regards college as the intellectual opportunity of a lifetime. By and large, faculty and administrators are delighted by the seriousness of their alumni. Professors regard reunion lectures as a chance to try out new ideas on a captive, eager audience. And experience has convinced school officials that instilling old grads with ideas rather than iced martinis is a far more effective way of developing pride...
After the Spree. Businessmen had plenty of explanations for the new signs of strain, none of them comforting to would-be borrowers. Many companies, having spent so much to keep up with the economic spree of the past six years, were borrowing to replenish their coffers or pay off short-term bank loans. Says Donald C. Miller, vice president of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co.: "The difficulties of the money panic last fall are still so real that companies do not want to go through that again." Guy E. Noyes, senior vice president of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust...
...King Bhumibol paid a state visit to the Shah of Iran and Empress Farah Diba, Dior dispatched six of its staff members to study Sirikit's tastes in couture and see if they couldn't recommend a few designs that she might buy on a Paris spree later this spring. "I prefer Balmain because I happened to know him before I knew Dior," Sirikit kept insisting to friends. Evidently Dior will have to content itself with fashioning glad rags for Farah Diba, who spends a mere $80,000 per year on such vanities...
...chosen piece hardly looked funky at all. Says Voulkos, "It's pretty open. There's no literal connotation in it." It simply looked like a shiny bronze-and-aluminum convocation of happy-go-lucky boa constrictors, and could be Fernand Leger on a three-dimensional spree. After all, by Peter Selz's definition, a work of art designed on request for a city hall can't possibly be funky, since the public has neither rejected the artist nor ignored...
Nonetheless, Nicosia came back quickly to score and in the first minute of the final quarter Hutchinson and Cain threw in goals, cutting the margin to 10-6. But like a ninth-inning rally by the New York Mets, Harvard's stickmen's scoring spree fell short. The Crimson could only manage one more tally (by Kilkowski) before...