Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hippies stand up and move to the stage. He has them now--but he is no longer there. He stares wide-eyed into the red spotlight and, reaching up, flicks it dumbly...
Peretz also said that he considers Harvard's relationship with the outside world to be the issue raised by the Dow demonstration. "What I object to is the wide-spread assumption that Harvard is non-political," Peretz said. "That's simply not true...
Hoffmann does not want to see a small investigating committee. He sees a body with something like 40 members, half of them professors appointed by Pusey, the other half students (elected House by House, or selected from a wide range of organizations, or--least desirable, to Hoffmann--appointed by Pusey). That sort of committee would not only discover government finances but include members who stoutly advocate maintaining them. And the burden would be on radical members to make a persuasive case for their elimination...
...merely a name sleeper; she democratically slept with all who could afford her huge fees. "Don't forget," she once told her friend Colette, "that there is always a moment in a man's life, even if he's a miser, when he opens his hand wide." "The moment of passion?" asked Colette. "No," replied Otero, "the moment when you twist his wrist...
...shows how children operate. They have about as wide a range of experience as a cat living in a closet. So they demand an authority, somebody older, to lead them into life. At first it's the Mother in Our Mother's House. A boy picks up her Bible-quoting habit and throws verses at his siblings. A little girl combs her mother's hairpiece like a slave, then cultivates her own pigtail. These same little saints, when Charlie becomes their authority, take up cigarettes and twist in the halls. The Bible-quoter turns purveyor of whorish wisdom: "Men have...