Word: reference
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court Mrs. Stern's lawyer made a point of emphasizing the Mrs.. The opposing lawyer could present no more damaging argument than to refer to Stern as Dr. Stern. That used to be a title which commanded respect, not embarassment. Stern went through four years of undergraduate work, three years of medical school and a five year internship. Her schedule used to be organized around becoming a doctor. And now Dr. Stern. asked Mrs. Whitehead-Gould's lawyer, you will never again work full time? Dr. Stern, you will give up your career for Melissa? Why of course...
...would think that Harvard had enough computerization and impersonalization to go around, but now I see The Crimson is leading a vanguard to eliminate one of the last vestiges of a personal touch left in the University. I refer to the absence of a room lottery at Eliot House (March 19). One wonders if it is the lack of a lottery which annoys The Crimson or simply the fact that The Crimson refuses to accept anything Eliot House does in its own fashion...
...Ninety percent of bills fail," said Osborne. The measure now goes before the House Rules Committee, which will either kill the bill or refer it to a House committee...
...generally acknowledged to be head of the Mafia, as the cartel is known locally, became something of a local philanthropist, building a zoo, soccer fields and an entire suburb of low-cost houses that is still called Barrio Escobar. In the manner of feudal serfs, residents in Barrio Escobar refer to their benefactor with cap-doffing deference and slip the Spanish honorific Don in front of his name...
...first scene establishes the play's mood of underlying despair and over-hanging wit. Max accuses his wife Charlotte of infidelity, disputing her claim that she has just returned from a Geneva art auction. Due to Stoppard's cunning, his ambiguous lines refer to either her new lover or her trip. "How's old Geneva then? Frank doing well?" "What?" Charlotte asks. "The Swiss Franc. Is it doing well?" They refuse to address the crisis at hand. Instead, Max digresses on apparently far-out topics which actually parallel the scene's conflict, a technique Stoppard uses and overuses later...