Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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riverrun takes its title from the opening of Finnegans Wake: "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay . . ." The literary allusion is an unnecessary device; Korty's pace and McLiam's face are enough to supply this wry, wispy film with a valid life...
More than 130 colleges around the country officially closed down yesterday in the wake of growing protests against the Administration's conduct in Southeast Asia and the killing of four Kent State students...
...country's highest office to the candidate receiving the greatest number of popular votes. Twice it has resulted in, and several times-most recently in 1968-it has threatened the chaos of a disputed election's being thrown to Con gress for resolution. Last year, in the wake of that recent near-fiasco, a pro posed constitutional amendment for direct election of the President was passed by the House of Representatives. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee added its approval and sent the amendment to the floor for a debate that is expected to be long and bitter...
...University of Pennsylvania provost has announced that all finals will be optional because, he said, students are unable to concentrate in the wake of international developments. A mass rally is scheduled there at 11 a. m. today, to call for a strike of all East Coast schools...
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