Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next morning you wake up, with your eyes feeling like they wree lined with sandpaper and about 9:30 you head on up to the Varsity Club for the pre-game meal. I know all you uninitiated think that the football team dines on juicy sirloin steak but you are so, so wrong; Mario, the V-Club cook, serves up a plate of scrambled eggs that look like those rubber gimmicks that you lay on the floor to gross out the girls in the sixth grade and with that comes your "steak," a sad old piece of meat that chews...
...HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE, 20 students occupied the school's administrative offices earlier this month, demanding that Hampshire sell its nearly $40,000 of stockholdings in U.S. corporations that maintain operations in South Africa. The occupation came in the wake of the administration's persistant refusal to sell the stock, despite the fact that in March, more than half of the student body signed a petition urging divestiture of the stocks...
...Chilean poet Pablo Neruda a few weeks after the coup. Although Neruda's mourners were already aware of the nature of the new regime, they showed their support for Allende and the U.P., chanting slogans of the left despite imminent reprisals. Neruda's funeral march becomes a wake for Allende's government, but it is clear Soto believes the spirit that kept Jarre singing lives on in Chile. Soto's vision is a romantic, idealized one--far more idealized than the vision of Chile presented in Avenue of the Americas--but it is probably necessary to be idealistic...
Died. Mauricio Borgonovo, 37, Foreign Minister of El Salvador who was kidnaped by leftist guerrillas last month; shot to death by his abductors; found on a road outside San Salvador. The killing of Borgonovo was one of many assassinations committed by both terrorist and government groups in the wake of the country's questionable February elections claimed by the military-backed government party. The wealthy businessman was kidnaped by members of the Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Front, which demanded the release of 37 political prisoners in ex change for his life. When President Arturo Armando Molina refused to negotiate...
Radcliffe took numerous power tens during the first half mile in a vain attempt to get themselves out of the treacherous water, but it was to no avail. "We wanted to be with them to make a move on them in that third mile--but after that wake, they were gone," Strong said...