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Word: taking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rapists who populate the Common until the Boston cold runs them out in November just to bring him there and hear him say: "...it is part of your task in the world and the Church to reveal the true meaning of life where hatred, neglect or selfishness threaten to take over the world...Faced with problems and disappointments, many people will try to escape from their responsibility: escape in selfishness, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. But today, I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape. If you really accept love...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Going Away Sadly | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

...cynics ask, "How? Give us a method." In the aftermath, the analysts are looking for practical applications. And the pontiff did leave his listeners with a "method," a highly impractical method which few modern men take seriously beyond the Bible--an impractical method for the most impractical of all things: life...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Going Away Sadly | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

...balance. It doesn't help that Cain chooses the very middle of Act III--right before Lear enter's Poor Tom's hovel--for his intermission; the mounting horror in the theater suddenly dissipates when you buy your "Jamaica Cola" in the lobby, and it's difficult to take Lear's self-dramatizing declamation right after a desultory intermission conversation, or a trip to the rest rooms. Thus such atrocities as the general guffaw that followed Lear's "Didst thou give all to thy daughters?" last Thursday night...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Not the Promis'd End | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...doubles final, Martha Roberts teamed up with Debbie Kalish to take that crown, stopping Shirley Holmes and Ida Tarbell of Smith, 6-7, 6-2, 7-5. They had reached the championships with easy 6-1, 6-0, and 6-0, 6-2 victories over Springfield and Boston College Saturday...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Racquetwomen Win State Title | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...agrees: "It was completely his decision. He wanted to go into the hotel-restaurant program....He didn't apply to any other place. His feeling was that if he didn't get into Cornell, he'd take a year off and apply again...

Author: By Mark D. Director, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: That Clasby Clan | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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