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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another fraternity, Delta Tau, which was placed on probation at the same time as Phi Delta Beta, remains on probation. Delta Tau members allegedly threw a sofa out of an upstairs window, set it on fire and then urinated...
...early, because it was an important ceremony of his day to shave the important and self-important men of the town, whose gold-lettered mugs stood splendidly on the shelf above the mirror. Then he would hang up his straw hat and suit coat and raise his window shades. After that he would put on his barber coat, and, finally, he would step outside his shop with the key for winding up his spring-driven barber pole motor. When the twisted red, white and blue stripes began spiraling their way to infinity (a kid could watch those stripes coming down...
...Capitalism created the affluent society, but the more prosperity the public enjoyed, the more it wanted. If hard work, talent and savings no longer provided the affluence, the public demanded it from the government. The family that once was "satisfied" with only two cars looked around the open-window culture provided by instant communications and saw many other people with two cars and a boat. Then the family not only expected but began demanding its "right" to everything ?and felt somehow cheated when galloping prices frustrated its desires...
DIED. James Wright, 52, winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for poetry; of an undisclosed ailment; in New York City. His subjects captured quotidian images from his native Midwest, among them: "Crickets outside my window, cold and hungry old men, a red-haired child in her mother's arms...
...walks with me. As I hurried past the University Museum, I was ordering my workday in my mind. I crossed the street and started past the Science Center toward the Yard. This guy in a white car pulled out of the driveway and stopped in front of me; his window was open. He asked me how I was doing. I said fine. I was sure he was a creep by the sugary tone of voice he was using. I started turning off the sidewalk to go around the front of the car. I got one step and he said...