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Word: wake (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe that's one of the things, maybe even the main thing, that happened to the Lost Cause--when pressed it had no more answers, perhaps even fewer, than Harvard. The idea of a clear and imminent alternative way must have fallen apart, and in its wake, left people either accepting what prevailed or, like me, vaguely and not particularly coherently objecting to the prevailing order without knowing exactly what I wanted in its stead...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

...situations and villains, at the expense of examining the processes that create them and make them recur. Similarly, the despair in students' lives now is not the product of specific circumstances or individuals. It is a story without any villains, the story of what is left in the wake of a period of idealism and vision that failed. Its central characteristic is not an embracing of the status quo or a blindness to its failings, but a sense of its irrevocability. The vast majority of students here see no alternative at all to the set of values that is presented...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

Parker, however, said on Saturday that, she feels "great" in the wake of Friday's announcement. "We certainly don't feel like sad victims after all of this...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Bennington Board Replaces Parker With a Trustee | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Iseman, said that in the wake of the Parkers' resignation the board will appoint a "self-review" committee, as well as a joint student-faculty-trustee committee charged with seeking a new president for the college...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Bennington Board Replaces Parker With a Trustee | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...multi-colored lion, bulbous-eyed with wagging ears, writhed in between the Chevy coupe and the grey sedan. Blackclad men brandishing machetes whooped in its wake; fireworks resounded like gunshots, until the very sidewalks seemed to throb...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: Lion Dance, Fireworks Spark Start of Year of the Dragon | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

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