Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the legacy of his father--an extra-legal fiefdom doing business on a scale Exxon wouldn't sneeze at--and try to adapt it to changing times. If the film has anything to say about this, it is that he is imprisoned by his heritage. He marries an upper-class New England girl (played by Diane Keaton, who apparently hasn't learned how to act yet) and promises, at their wedding that "within five years the Corleone family will be entirely legitimate." This good intension founders on the distinction between the idea of a "family" as most...
...left atrium, to draw off blood before it reaches the ventricle (see diagram). The second tube is connected to the aorta, to return pumped blood to general circulation. The tubes are then led down through the surgical incision in the chest and placed under the skin of the upper abdomen...
...jockeys have inflated the audience for winter weather. A smaller, more select group of frosted sportsmen also follows snow bulletins with fascination: the men who hitch Huskies to light wood rigs and mush across wilderness trails in sled-dog races. From the White Mountains of New Hampshire through the Upper Midwest snow belt to Alaska, a cadre of dog sledders has been reviving the arcane sport for thrills and profit. TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury visited Ely, Minn., to cover the Sixth All-American Sled-Dog Championships. His report...
...Interpretation of Literature. Although for the most part based on the now unacceptable assumption of the primacy of Western culture and civilization, each of these lower level Humanities courses promised exposure to a startlingly wide range of material. Such enormous breadth was surpassed only by upper level Humanities, courses such as Hum 115, Language, and Hum 134. Freedom and the Spirit of Heresy...
...wasn't always like that. There was a time in the early seventeenth century when the upper class, not yet concerted in its Brattle Street redoubt, ruled unopposed. In 1688, 16 of the 20 most prosperous Cantabrigians held elected posts. They were all alumni of Harvard but unlike Crane and many of his political cronies of a later day, being in the majority they didn't have to straddle the Harvard Yard fence. It wasn't political suicide if the politicians sided with Harvard...