Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...topic of particular interest to many in the audience at a student panel discussion on "Undergraduate Life Today" was the College's coed living quarters. One unidentified woman asked for confirmation that men and women could "actually live next door to each other...
...Lyss added that the presentation made by representatives from the University of Pennsylvania was especially informative. The topic of their program focused on a Student Committee for Undergraduate Education (SCUE), which Lyss said "has been able to work with the administration to help students and UPenn as a whole...
Given the topic--"The monster is among us"--Curtis and Buchanan took a very liberal interpretation in the tradition of off-topic debate, and defined the resolution to mean that Ronald Reagan's presidency has been harmful...
...were particularly disturbed by the panel on sociology, during which two of the panelists openly confessed lamentable ignorance of the topic they were expected to address, and another made totally unacceptable generalizations, some of which were reported in the local press...
...first, to Comedy Writer Dan Greenburg (How to Be a Jewish Mother), ended in 1973. The second, to Journalist Carl Bernstein (All the President's Men), was finished shortly after the birth of their second son. Bernstein's association with an ambassador's wife had been Topic A at Washington parties. When Ephron discovered the liaison, she headed back to New York City and retribution...