Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Making a supposedly "nonpolitical" speech before a crowd of 20,000 at Social Security headquarters near Baltimore, the President outlined a cannily timed proposal for across-the-board boosts of "at least 10%" for all 22 million Social Security beneficiaries. Sharing a platform with local party bigwigs (notably absent: Open-Housing Foe George P. Mahoney, Maryland's Democratic gubernatorial nominee), the President chose a curious way to scold the Republicans - by pinning on them the Democratic Party symbol. "Any donkey can kick down a barn," he said, "but it takes a skilled carpenter to build one. There...
...orchestra, sets the standard that the rest of the players are expected to live up to. He plays all the important violin solos in an orchestral piece, and, indeed, ought to be so familiar with the literature that he can substitute at the last minute for an absent violin soloist...
...substitutes and retired teachers who, by law, must quit within 60 days or lose their pensions. Kansas City's director of school personnel, Robert Ward, says it takes about 50 telephone calls to find five substitutes when a regular teacher is sick-and on some days 150 are absent...
Mayer's Woyzeck is a veritable diamond in the rough: the set looks unfinished, the lighting is often unfortunately absent, the stage hands scramble conspicuously for the props during scene transitions, sometimes the actors don't seem aware that other actors are on stage with them. But it doesn't matter. When all is said and done, Woyzeck is an exciting and a fascinating show, one which transcends its technical handicaps easily. The best in it is Mayer's best and that's saying plenty...
Baird's objections are obviously condescending toward the student who comes here during the summer, and although the "I go here during the winter" buttons show that this snobbism it is not entirely absent among the Harvard students themselves, the Faculty cannot afford to have this outlook if it is to make any significant contribution to these girls' educations...