Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The Crimson, for fairly obvious reasons, can be a lot more interesting than something like the Moscow University Herald (which, one hazards, regarded 600 annual purges as regrettable faux pas that had no place in a sober chronicle of the passing days). Yes, yes, the Crimson is much more than...
But there comes a time in the harmless progress of publication when every newspaper (particularly one whose senior staff manages to vanish every year or so) must have new blood. That is what things like Winter Competitions are for: to obtain it.
And there is so much that one can do on any of the four (news, editorial, business, photographic) boards of the Crimson. You can write editorial columns full of scabrous attacks on people you dislike, and touching profiles of people you revere; scathing reviews of shows you walked out of...
The news page is always something new, largely because people have a charming habit of not doing precisely the same thing every day. You call Important Sources to Confirm Anonymous Reports; you wheedle information out of truculent Persons in Authority; you write stark exposes of those whom formerly you had...
If you do not think that the Business Board constitutes an absolutely invaluable business experience, you are likely to be dead wrong. As an organization through which well over $100,000 is annually circulated; as an advertising medium that can, if it likes, reject advertisements, and need never to turn...