Word: standing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparently fulfills the promise that there would be group "sharing" and mass "intimacy." Still, the participants are people who, en masse, become as obedient, as malleable as a class of terrified kindergarteners. They submit themselves with amazing unanimity to a series of silly exercises ordered from on high. Everybody stand up! Take a deep breath! Massage your leg! Jump up and down three times! Give the laugh of power! Huh-uuugh! Fabulous! Pick another partner! A, you tell B what you like about the person, and if you don't know the person, make...
...philosophies. Having decided--contrary to all established principles of journalistic ethics--that sale of advertising space is tantamount to endorsement, it still might have a little difficulty separating the claims of free speech from those which are, supposedly, incorrect in their views. We hope that it might reconsider its stand in the near future, before reality intrudes--because these situations will continue to arise, no matter how fervently the majority might hope that this is a "special case...
Russell E. Nelson, an unemployed graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, plans to stand outside Grays Hall today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., facing The Yard, and speaking to anyone who comes along...
...adult males were left, they lay down near their families, and one of them, chosen in advance, killed his mates one by one. Finally, with the Romans approaching, this last man completed his task by driving a dagger into his chest. Masada had fallen after a three-year stand, but the symbolic act of defiance remains even now as heroic. Faced with the choice of life under a hated regime or death as free men, the defenders of Masada decided that death was better...
Ruth has done a one-night stand with Wagner in a London hotel and develops a fierce unrequited crush on Milne. She is, it seems, a romantic manquée who cannot recoup in sex what she has lost in love. While Rigg delivers all of Ruth's crisp-edged lines with hilarious asperity the feminine vulnerability of the role eludes her until she hears that Milne ha been machine-gunned to death. Then she rages in grief, waving a newspaper and asking what page in it was worth that price...