Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope my inference is clear. The A's go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell observed, this...
FOOTNOTE: *A day after returning to Jordan from the U.S., Rifai was sacked last week by King Hussein in the wake of riots over price rises...
...Harvard men's tennis team traveled to upstate New York this weekend, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake...
...book's most moving scenes, Ackermann enters the Towers and confronts Largey's 16-year old peers, sharing their anger and desperation. "Other children were weeping," she says of the moment. "This was Larry's wake we were at. I wept...
...wake of the Prime Minister's latest disclosures, opposition members intensified their demands that he step down. "Your hands are dirty," charged Socialist Diet member Kanji Kawasaki. Takeshita, 65, refused to do so, vowing instead to reform the system. To his critics, Takeshita declared, "I have no intention of taking a quick way out of this crisis...