Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cultural observer Albert B. Lord, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, described the night as typical, except for a "small, remarkably cute young girl dressed up in a Dutch costume...
There's a conference room on the sixth floor at 70 Federal Street in the heart of Boston's financial district where a dozen investment specialists gather at 10:45 every morning. It looks just like those corporate board-rooms you've seen in countless movies, except the rectangular table isn't as big as you remember, the chairs aren't as tall...
...Podhoretz' complete divorce from radicalism came after the riots at Berkeley in 1968. He decided that violence had been done to "language and ideas." The rational arguments of earlier radicalism had been replaced by "direct action" based on the assumption that "there was no longer anything to argue about except the choice of means to an end already known with great certainly to be just." In other words, Podhoretz, with many of his colleagues, chose loyalty to intellectual standards over radicalism...
...redheaded dynamo admits to no hobbies off the field--except sports. She loves skiing and racquetball, runs and lifts weights daily, and plans to play rugby this spring for the Boston Women's Rugby Club...
...everyone who watched the procession pass by understood WAP's arguments or sympathized with them. A woman who claimed to oppose the death penalty on principle except for child pornographers said she decided not to join the march because, "This crowd is too colorful for me." She settled on a park bench nearby...