Word: absent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here is a committee full of purposefulness. Bok has named four Fellows of the Corporation to decide all future questions of Harvard's responsibility as a corporate shareholder. His name is consciously absent from the membership. But, he says, the subcommittee is not a dodge: It is a way to guarantee careful thought on shareholder questions, while leaving Bok free to "do all of the things that are expected of me in various areas of the University...
This race, in which three crews from each school race in one big heat, is unusual in that it demands team racing tactics that are absent from most regattas...
WHETHER or not American politics makes strange bedfellows, it assuredly is making for active, absent ones in election year 1972. Last spring, George McGovern was flying over the Eastern seaboard in a private airplane, headed for a primary campaign stop, when a companion recognized another craft off the wing. "George," he advised, "get to the window. This may be your only chance to see Eleanor the rest of this campaign...
...staff bickering, and an obsession with the impact of polls. In 1970, George McGovern began his campaign stressing issues, especially Vietnam; while last July President Nixon called this the most "issue-oriented" campaign of the 20th century. Yet clarity, precision, and in-depth discussion of issues has been notably absent from the campaign...
...with the highest art and best essays, and do not deign to consider what is best in less-consistent realms of endeavor until it is overvalued by the unthinking others. Aside from that of Charles Thomas Samuels, the film writing Rahv has published has been obtuse: theater is totally absent, television not even acknowledged. Serious literary tricksters (Barth, Gass and Barthelme) who are trying to engage in their own kind of criticism of our language and outworn genres, are barely acknowledged...