Word: waded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...N.F.L. strike created its first hole in the air waves last Thursday night, ABC-TV offered instead The Cheap Detective, a comedy film about a befuddled gumshoe. Not such an inappropriate choice, perhaps. Though there is nothing cheap about this conflict, a dogged investigator may indeed be needed to wade through the welter of plans, positions and proposals to figure out whodunit. Who is responsible for the strike and what exactly is the fight about...
...scientific specialties spawn subspecialties, the rapidly growing mass of information has confused the arts and humanities as well. Historical research now presupposes a mastery of old tax records and population movements, and anyone who ventures into such popular fields as American literature or impressionist art must wade into a rising tide of studies, analyses, psychographic portraits and sheer verbiage. In addition, all the political trends of the past two decades have tended to multiply the demands for studies in fields once ignored: Chinese history, the languages of Africa, the traffic in slaves, the thwarted ambitions of women...
...mentions parenthetically that his choices of posters from the Coop were Van Gogh and Picasso. The writer Beth Gutcheon '67 notes that she could have made it through her Dickens tutorial by skimming Martin Chuzzlewit and a few others. "Of course," she adds, "if you should happen to wade through every word Dickens wrote--and of course I did--you would certainly find that there were rewards and memorable resonance even in the dregs...
...Kuehn Jr. of Housing Associates, and a University representative who asked not to be identified, both stated yesterday that Harvard plans to honor the May settlement, but an unforeseen housing shortage has temporarily prevented HRE from offering more units HRE-president Sally Zeckhauser and Tenant Relations Director Lorraine Wade refused to comment yesterday on the tenants complaints "The University position on this particular situation is to see [the relocation] implemented with a minimum of fuss," the Universityrepresentative said...
...Support Committee for African Liberation Day (SCALD) is organizing the march to protest the Reagan Administration's support of the South African government and to demonstrate opposition to the "historically bad treatment in this country of people of color." Juanita B. Wade, local chairperson of SCALD, said yesterday...