Word: winter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suddenly stabbed by the person sitting next to him. The assailant turned out to be a mental patient on day release from a Manhattan psychiatric institution. He wanted to be readmitted because the food was better there than at home, and resorted to violence to get attention. Especially in winter, platoons of tramps drift in from the neighborhood to sleep at the tables or mutter away at readers. Periodically the library staff wakens them, with a touching politeness, and asks them to leave-or come back only after taking a bath...
...nooooooo. This will be anthing but a simple non-League week for Harvard. The Terriers, currently No. 3 in Division I AA and piling up points like ravenous grizzlies preparing for winter, are massive, multi-dimensional, and riding the crest of a three-game winning streak. Third-year coach Rick Taylor has amassed a group of beefy boys, with the B.U. offensive line averaging well over 230 pounds a man. For Harvard, not known for its awesome size, the test of what has thus far proved a stellar Crimson defense should be crucial...
...nuclear power, but to push for expanded use, less restrictive licensing procedures, a speedup in plant construction-- and they mean to force it on us by creating yet another "oil crisis," thereby forcing us to choose between freezing in the dark and embracing nuclear power. Another cold winter looms ahead; so does an election year...
...realize that a successful occupation is a difficult task, but we cannot wait passively for another accident to happen. We cannot leave the responsibility to others. This winter will test all of us. Those in power are seeing how far they can push us. We must push back...
...film moves through harvest and winter and spring with only a thin thread of plot, recounting every day events along with a few more important ones. The result is that you feel the lives of the people, instead of just seeing them. What at first were lumpy bodies with non-descript faces become as real to you as your roomate through Omni's brilliant creation. The work is all Omni who, besides directing, wrote and filmed Tree. The cast, non-professional, which may account for the subtlety and dignity with which the characters were portrayed. Not once was piety overdrawn...