Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Architects confirm the College is considering a "student center" at Memorial Hall. Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown will draft a feasibility study on a dining hall for freshpersons and meeting spaces. Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 describes the proposal as at the "dreaming stage...
Members of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, which holds final say on the appointment, said last night they will almost certainly confirm Wilson at a noon meeting today...
...anticipate that there will be any conflict [in the meeting]," Sheerr said, adding she could not "confirm or deny" the decision...
...perestroika everywhere he turns. One Moscow literary type wonders, "When will they start repressing us again to make us comfortable?" Another informs him, "We have no more problems! In the old days we had to assume that everything was a mess! Now we can look in our newspapers and confirm it!" Barley must tunnel beneath this thawing surface, test how far it takes to get to the chilling center underneath...
...only Joe DiMaggio turned him down (not even mutual friend Edward Bennett Williams could twist his arm). Yet Halberstam's portrait of DiMaggio is the finest part of the book. The author has a tender, intuitive sympathy for the proud, remote athlete. DiMaggio does not need a writer to confirm his stature, but still he is lucky to have such a thoughtful, intelligent chronicler. Boston had its own superstar in Ted Williams, and that brings up the inevitable comparison between Halberstam's work and John Updike's classic account of Williams' last game, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu." Nearly...