Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...this time. And the Beacon Hill Alumni Association, also known as the state legislature, would not have passed it. Victim to political forces not unlike the social ones that rocked its campus in the late sixties, Harvard was unable to fend off institutionalized calls for change. An organized, impassioned group in the city finally triggered the earthquake, and things will never be quite the same, for Harvard always have to listen will have to listen to the aftershocks...
...their lives-and deaths-were marked by such extraordinary courage shown and cruelty suffered that books like Jacobus de Voragine's The Golden Legend became bestsellers in medieval Europe. Each saint, often according to the manner of his or her martyrdom, became a patron for a special group. The most grotesquely appropriate, perhaps, is St. Lawrence, the patron saint of cooks and restaurateurs, who, so legend says, was grilled to death over a slow fire in A.D. 258. St. Lawrence is said to have mocked his tormentors by saying, "My flesh is well cooked on one side. Turn...
...title song consumes the final eleven minutes of screen time.) It is hard to get angry about this harmless, weightless enterprise, an attempt to blend the spirit of the opulent old MGM musicals with the jackhammer sound of disco. The movie brings a certain chaotic zest to the group's Y.M.C.A., transforming it into a lavender update of a Busby Berkeley danceathon; and Paul Sand performs comic wonders with the role of a manic music executive. But there is no style here. Producer Allan Carr's guiding principle seems to be: shoot everything that moves, throw...
...firm also publishes Barron's, the Asian Wall Street Journal, Book Digest and the 20 community newspapers of the Ottaway group...
Although Rolls' shareholders will own only 40% of the new company, its group managing director, David Plastow, 47, will become chief executive of the new firm. The automaker will also get top billing in the new corporate name, Rolls-Royce Vickers. Euphony aside, the name is expected to add an element of prestige to the combine. First order of business for the new company: the fall roll-out of a successor to the 15-year-old Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. The new car's prototype has been code-named the Rolls-009 and will, as the bottom...