Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Athletic Students for Academic Action (ASAA) convened Friday night under the leadership of President David Liptak '81 during half-time of the Harvard-Yale basketball game. Our meeting of twenty scholar-athletes was held in the upper left-corner of the South bleachers of the Indoor Athletic Building. We proposed and unanimously passed the following resolutions...
...Inflation: Who Is Hurt Worst?" [Jan. 15]: boo, hiss to the American Dream! My husband and I now find that even though we have obtained that hallowed ground called "the upper middle class" we are hard put to have meat on the table three times a week. We put off visits to the doctor. A family vacation nowadays is a joke. Most depressing is watching Congress continue to set up programs that we finance but cannot use because we "make too much money." So please tell us: What is the American Dream...
...this? Why, he is a character in a forthcoming novel, Good as Gold (Simon & Schuster; $12.95), in which Joseph Heller does for Washington, D.C., what he did for the military in Catch-22. This time Heller's hero is Bruce Gold, a Jewish writer from Manhattan's Upper West Side, who hopes to get away from his Portnoy-esque family to be a "high Government official," even though to do so he may have to get a "better" wife. "Belle would be O.K. for Labor or Agriculture," someone advises Gold, "but not for Secretary of State or Defense...
...State. His proudest achievement was to expand the state university from 38,000 students on 41 campuses to 244,000 on 72. He added 50 state parks, 100,000 new housing units, 109 hospitals and nursing homes, and 348 sewage-treatment plants, which have effectively reduced pollution in the upper Hudson. His most controversial construction was the $1 billion-plus Albany Mall, an immense Brasilia-like complex to house the state government. It was denounced as "Rocky's Erector Set," but it is now a favorite of government workers and tourists alike...
...Does love mean never having to say you're sorry,' he said, dabbing his upper chest with a bit of perfume, 'or too sore to get fucked again...