Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cuts a strikingly distinctive figure. Generally tall and strapping, he sports a thick beard and, over his uncut hair, a turban wrapped of 15 ft. of elegantly coiled and pleated cloth. He takes as one of his names "Singh" (lion). He does not smoke or chew tobacco, and he eats the meat only of an animal that has been slain with one decisive stroke. In accordance with his religion, he at all times wears the five Ks: kes (long hair); kach (short trousers); kara (a steel bracelet on his right wrist); kangha (a comb); and kirpan (a curved dagger). Holding...
...heroic enough. So officials of the memorial fund risked the wrath of those who liked the wall as it was and asked Frederick Hart, 40, a Washington sculptor who had finished third in the initial competition, to design an added element. Last week his statue of seven-foot-tall bronze figures was set in place opposite the wall to await a formal unveiling on Nov. 9. Hart depicts three typical fighting men "gazing at a vision of war, its loss, its enormity . . . peering into our own eternity, perhaps even searching for their names on the wall." Those who have seen...
Every time Gillian V. Benet '87 wants to transport her six-foot tall harp from her room in Lowell House to Memorial Hall, where she practices, she has to hire a station wagon taxi to make the quarter-of-a-mile trip...
...late to find a Reagan backer on campus who can rationalize support for the President with arguments that: (1) do not smugly dismiss Walter F. Mondale as a "wimp"; (2) are more sophisticated than "I want a job;" and (3) do not include the words "optimism," "patriotism," "Olympics," "standing tall," or--and this is the killer--"What difference does it make...
...proposals into terms that relate directly to whatever sector of the electorate they are wooing. But what is both surprising and worrysome is that Reagan youth, especially at Harvard, are so willing to embrace what they know are superficialities: television images, fleeting moods, and pat phrases ("America is standing tall") that defy cogent analysis...