Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...electorate, feel increasingly left out of the American economic system and political process. Since 1964, when a record 59% of black voters went to the polls, the turnout has steadily shrunk; in 1976, it was only 49%. "It is informed apathy," says Columbus Keepler, field services director for the Atlanta-based Voter Education Project, which was in the forefront of the Southern voter registration drives of the 1960s. "Many people voted once or twice and didn't see anything happen, so they don't vote any more." But as Carter showed in 1976, even a small black turnout...
More freshman trips--to the Boston Harbor Islands, along the Freedom Trail, a geology field trip, and an architectural tour. Sleep off the hangover, and skip the trips...
...those who major in Afro-Am are lucky compared to those who want to major in Women's Studies but will never get the chance. They won't get the chance because the Faculty doesn't think it's a proper academic field and, right or not, there aren't enough women Faculty members to support it if they wanted to. And the Afro-Am majors are lucky compared to those who want to go to Europe to study Florentine art. Everybody knows you can only really study Florentine art in Florence; not at Harvard, because the Faculty doesn...
...pleasure to report that this Richard III employs many performers who look young, for the play is largely about people under the age of 30. Nearly half of the company assembled by Ernotte and his star have recently acted with Moriarty or are members of the Potter's Field troupe founded by Moriarty three years...
...morning, the magazine Track and Field News organized a race for American tourists on a 3 ½ -mile course along the river. I wanted to try, carrying my small American flag on a stick, like a baton, so that during the slightest lull in conversations in years to come, I could say, "Ahem, during the Moscow Olympics in '80, I want you to know that ... etc., etc." I did some jogging to prepare, getting up to run when the sun came through the lace curtains of my room in the Hotel Ukraine. Summer sunrise is very early in these...