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Word: wakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience cannot quite make out Stallone's moronic mumblings, the guys in the union halls may possibly have the same difficulty. This closed-in quality of Stallone's bespeaks not a leader of men but a narcissistic, self-absorbed actor star-tripping in the wake of his enormous 1976 success, Rocky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: J.U.N.K. | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...statement also turns a deaf ear to the feelings of a large segment of the student body. That treatment, of course, comes as no surprise, yet in the wake of this week's large and peaceful demonstrations, some consideration and dialogue with those students would seem only fair. The uncommunicative and vaguely paranoid stance adopted by the University throughout this week shows that Harvard is both afraid of and unwilling to listen to its own no-longer-docile students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Corporation Refuses to Stand On Apartheid | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

...wake of the Corporation's report, the events of the upcoming days are practically impossible to predict. Students have exhausted traditional means of protest, apparently to no avail. We hope that non-violent protest will continue; whatever transpires, however, the Corporation will have only itself to blame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Corporation Refuses to Stand On Apartheid | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

...wake of University threats of disciplinary action against students who blocked Bok's entrance to Mass Hall Monday, it seems only fair to ask who raised the ruckus. It would not have taken so very much for Bok to think of a few words to say before he emerged from University Hall--particularly because he must have known that students were waiting for him to appear. Six months or so after President Bok took office, during the days when he shone in contrast to Pusey's tarnished image, a Crimson editor wrote that Bok "not only lacked substance, but showed...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: A Siege Mentality | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...wake of the 1972 uprising, President Bok decided to establish the ACSR as a five student, five faculty member, five alumni body to consider the ethical questions inherent in investment decisions, and advise the Corporation on how to vote its shareholder proxies. The Associated Alumni were to choose the alumni members, the deans of the various schools were to suggest professors to serve on the ACSR, and the dean of the College was to choose the undergraduate students from a list drawn up by a group of undergraduates from all the Houses. South House refused to send delegates...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Tinker to Evers to Chance: Harvard Makes Investment Decisions | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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