Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fewer than two hundred people at any given time, milling around the limousine. The car is in a Ford dealership to attract crowds. It's there for three days. No one will say how much it's costing. Everyone is strangely quiet. It is a kind of strange wake, kind of a wake by proxy. Four years after the fact, it's still sort of a relic thing--a visit to the rock and roll catacombs...
...play his songs Ow and Groovin' High. The campus visit briefly unsettled Gillespie. Afterward the jazzman recalled with a chuckle: "I looked at my program and read, 'Commencement address: Dizzy Gillespie.' I was terrified. Everybody knows a jazz trumpeter's instrument doesn 't wake up until 10 at night." In short, as usual, through the gloom there came notes of hope, idealism and humor as well. A commencement sampler...
That was why he could continue to praise Degas, while in the wake of the Dreyfus affair, Degas, like the anti-Semite he was, brutally snubbed him. Painting could not heal everything, but it represented for Pissarro a corrected world, all relations manifest, all unities achieved, hopeful, measurable and decent...
...Peter J. Gomes, minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, and his committee did not quite fit the model Third World students had envisioned. Instead of advocating a University-funded center primarily for Third World students, the committee--commissioned by Bok in the wake of Spring 1980 requests--recommended the creation of a "foundation" for race relations, to be supported by outside donors. Although Bok voiced some support for the idea, many Faculty members seemed skeptical, saying that current resources were adequate for improving race relations and that the proposed institution might disturb the role...
...other side of the issue, people like Walter J. Leonard, formerly a special assistant to the president and the University's affirmative action officer, have led the fight for stricter enforcement of the quota system, particularly in the wake of the Bakke and DeFunis Supreme Court rulings...