Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tenth grade. Then, through more than 20 years of self-education and training programs, he learned to master topics like atomic weights, valences and isotopes. Ironically, Smith loved the work. His testimony may have made him a hero to antinuclear activists?and all the more so in the wake of Three Mile Island?but for Smith the workaday life with plutonium fulfilled that old American dream of self-made success...
...have any self-respect," complains the fraudulent investor, "if don't keep it up that we're better than we really are?" And to top it off, there is mad Captain Shotover endlessly traversing the stage in search of the seventh degree of concentration, leaving behind him a wake of nonsensical criticism, and them harrumphing back across the stage with still more. Yes, Heartbreak House is a madhouse--but it is England as well...
...black consciousness in the '60s, Harvard had stayed relatively unmoved; there had been talk about establishing an African studies program ever since the '50s, when Harvard turned down a grant to establish such a program, but there had been little action. It was not until May, 1968, in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination and a new groundswell of black activism, that the Faculty's liberal conscience got the better of it, and Dean Ford established a Committee on African and Afro-American Studies. Henry Rosovsky, then professor of Economics, chaired the committee, which eight months later produced...
Both yesterday's rally and Monday's boycott call for strengthening of the Afro-American Studies Department. This department was created in the wake of the 1969 student strike, but has faced problems throughout its history...
...came to New York bookstores just three years before Carter's visit to Mexico to negotiate oil deals. Fuentes would have smiled at the results of the talks. If the author had written a sequel to The Hydra Head at that point, maybe he would have had Felix Maldonado wake up to find he had regained his original name, or perhaps an ear or a nostril...