Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Established in the wake of the April 1969 student strike as a student-Faculty committee to discipline political demonstrators, the CRR was boycotted by undergraduates from 1970 to 1977. Although the boycott began more because student members of the committee felt personally uncomfortable disciplining fellow students than because of organized protest, the boycott quickly became an expression of student dissatisfaction with the CRR's structure and procedures...
...knows how this American-Chinese venture will end." So remarked the Soviet press agency Tass last week in the wake of Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing's nine-day whirlwind tour of the U.S. The Tass observation was certainly valid. The Chinese leader's candor and expansive personality had charmed the American public, and most of the visit's achievements were on that psychological level. But few concrete answers emerged to some of the tough questions raised by Jimmy Carter's policy of normalizing relations with Peking...
Harvard does wield a lot of political clout in the city, as much or more than any other institution in Cambridge. The council is threatening to cut back on some of that power, though, in the wake of what Preusser termed "an institutional powerplay" by Harvard...
...newest structure in town is Maranatha Baptist Church, result of a schism precipitated in the Plains Baptist Church by a racial dilemma in the wake of Jimmy's election. The newest organic matter seems to be a small garden given by the citizens of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In a chill evening wind, the shrubs seem afflicted and huddled in gloom along streets as empty as Sagebrush at midnight. And, I discover as hunger mounts, Faye has closed her restaurant and moved the mobile home. The old Plains may be buried past finding...
...letters, including 1,500 never published. The blank spaces left in this portrait are probably there for good. Conrad covered his tracks carefully, destroying letters written to him, telling different correspondents contradictory anecdotes and romantically reshaping his past in published memoirs. Lengthy segments of his life vanished, like the wake of a ship...