Word: variously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are two further considerations involved in this unique and disturbing case. First is the method by which the Justice Department, in its apparent eagerness for a conviction, went about gathering evidence against the defendants: federal agents used various means of electronic surveillance--including wiretaps--all with President Carter's personal approval. Carter has thus taken hold of a power that should not be his to appropriate--executive use of wiretaps without a court order--and thereby violated the defendants' civil rights. The Carter Administration's use of Nixon-esque techniques to pursue "justice" is at the very least...
...something of a glorified girls' boarding school. At the Anne Radcliffe Buffet this week, the alumnae will sing a ditty composed of the myriad rules contained in the little red book with which every freshman was expected to become familiar--a world of structure reduced to song. Speaking with various members of the Class, it appears that their attitudes toward such petty restrictions as being required to wear a hat to the Square reflects in many ways their attitudes toward the larger oppression of growing up in a society where the rules dictating their opportunity to use their intellects were...
...Class Marshals were commuters like her. All the commuters ate in Agassiz, and "in many ways were a more unified body than those living in the dorms. It was not that there were any hard feelings there, just a mechanical question of the divisions between the various different buildings they lived...
Despite the abundance of these ancient works, the contemporary world has seen little of them. Many of the originals are carefully locked away in the vaults of various European cities, and some have never been publicly displayed. Nor are the caverns always accessible. France's celebrated Lascaux cave with its paintings of running bison and horses is now closed to all but a few selected scholars; contamination and changes in humidity and temperature caused by sightseers in the few decades after the cave was discovered in 1940 caused more damage to the fragile paintings than had occurred during...
...break; the deejay in his glass booth worrying that the Commodores' instruments won't arrive in time for their live broadcast performance; the joint's owner looking for a lady on whom to exercise his distinctly resistible charms for a one-night stand; various other stud: looking for the action; various sweeties looking for the same...