Word: disrepair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time, the Heps will be held at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City, because of the disrepair of the course. This year's site in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania should be more to the Crimson's liking. Saucon Valley Fields, Lehigh's home course and the location of the nationals in two weeks, offers plenty of free-running space, an arrangement that should not provide the problems of Van Cortlandt or Cornell's home course...
...house of literature is in its usual state of disrepair. Poetry is depressed, the novel remains in the shadow of James, Joyce and Proust, and an aging Tennessee Williams is still the greatest living playwright. But wait: there is a light burning in the attic window. Biography is alive, well, and scribbling away, better than ever. The banners may not be waving in college English departments and the critics may not be cheering quite as much as they should, but we are now in a golden age of biography. Indeed, all but half a dozen of the greatest biographies...
Like many social bastions, the debutante fell into disrepair during the sixties. Recently, however, she has staged a comeback, though not without concessions to the times. Her "season," far from being a winter--long whirl of activities, takes place in the few weeks when everyone is home for Christmas vacation. In year's past, a deb often faced the agonizing choice of making a debut or going to college. Today, individual families rarely present their daughters as in times past. Instead, some type of social organization whith a name like the Bachelor's Club or the Spinster's Circle sponsors...
...shops are shuttered tightly, though not the Large Soviet cultural center on the corner. Rusting hulks of cars and trucks lie at the side of the roads leading out of the city. Even the front garden of the old Royal Palace has fallen into a state of near total disrepair-the King was sent to a reeducation camp...
...only remnant of a video class at Harvard was Soc Sci 168 "Mass Telecommunications," taught by Saudek. The porta-paks and video equipment were in disrepair and Robert Kuglers's position as video supervisor was eliminated, leaving him to concentrate his efforts on 16 mm film...