Word: wake
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...wait a minute. True, the '69 strike had died a painful death at least a week and a half before the Class of '44 arrived on campus. But still, that was no reason to dress as if you were attending an Irish wake. So it was somewhat surprising to discover most of the assembled chauffeurs and porters adhering to "your basic dress" code. To be sure, alumni enjoy Harvard exotica-but at a distance. They certainly don't want it driving their cars and pouring them their drinks...
...other hand, had no trouble finding an explanation for the murder. A voter-registration drive aided by young whites from the North had recently started, and local resentments were aroused. Said state N.A.A.C.P. President Aaron Henry: "Apparently they were out to kill a black, any black." In the wake of the killing, angry crowds of Negroes roamed the town, occasionally hurling stones at windows and passing cars. Heavily armed, nervous police patrolled the streets and imposed a one-night curfew...
...wake of East Berlin's 1953 bread riots, the Communist regime scolded the people for having forfeited the government's confidence and demanded that they work twice as hard to atone. Marxist Dramatist Bertolt Brecht offered a classic rejoinder. Instead of trying to rehabilitate such people, asked Brecht sarcastically, "wouldn't it be simpler for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?" It remained for Czechoslovakia, nearly two decades later, to take Brecht at his word...
...other hand. several department chairmen indicated that in the wake of the report on the status of women there is increased resolve not to hire a woman "just because she's a woman...
...memories. Hints that vaguely suggest why the hell I'm here. On the third floor of Moors Hall, staring out at the garbage men and the cold sun moving across the morning. In other times there have been mornings on marble islands with a dive in the Aegean to wake me up. Mornings in Spanish fishing villages and on hot Nevada hilltops. There have been mornings with a woman which turned magically into afternoons-mornings that did kindly battle with the cynical didactic of the "Harvard Experience...