Word: broads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Subsequently, he said, B.S.U. leaders turned to "tactics of threat and coercion" that resulted in the humiliation of Maurice Jackson, the department head. Jackson, a black, quit Riverside after signing a statement giving the B.S.U. central committee broad veto powers over the hiring of the black studies professors and administrators...
...evening in Bel Air, Calif, Peter, Henry and Jane Fonda sprawl on a broad couch in the library of Henry's handsome house. Opposite them are TIME'S Mary Cronin, Jonathan Larsen and Jay Cocks. Red Eric beer foams in glasses on the coffee table. A tape recorder runs. Jane sums it up as the conversation develops: "This is really one of the first times in as long as I can remember that the three of us have been together and talked about acting." For the last half-hour of the session, Peter lambastes the Establishment press...
Runners Roy Shaw and John Gillis, weight man Ed Nosal, and the three regular broad jumpers will not compete so as to rest their mildly-injured bodies for the Big. Three and the Heptagonal meets. The Crimson should have little difficulty disposing of a team that fell to North-eastern, 65-44, a few weeks before Harvard whipped the Huskies...
With Jake Driscoll going in the 35 pound weight throw, Harvard has a slight edge. In the other field events, however, Brown must be considered a slim favorite. Although there is a good chance that Crimson athletes will not win in the shot, the broad jump, the high jump, or the pole vault, they should pick up enough points to enable their teammates in the distance events to carry Harvard to a substantial victory...
...wonders and horrors wear thin in months. If the West has truly declined to the point of broad collapse, the calamity itself should be enough to occupy generations of novelists. But no; barely nine years after Joseph Heller's Catch-22 bemused readers with loony proof that war is an insane farce, the somewhat similar propositions of Kurt Vonnegut can be read with mild impatience. Vonnegut is simply not saying enough. There is something mean and gritty in the two-transistor collective consciousness that asks, "O.K., O.K., the center cannot hold. Now what...