Word: actually
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...held the job. In the 28 years from 1933 to 1961, we had one great President, F.D.R., and two very good ones, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. None of the next six could be put in either of those categories. John Kennedy perhaps had a potential for greatness; the actual accomplishments of his presidency were meager. However, his short presidency and Gerald Ford's short presidency, for all the differences of style, were the best, or least unsuccessful, of the 1960s and 1970s. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society legislation was a noble achievement (though the programs went wildly...
...transition to filmmaking is a challenge to the experienced photographer. Young believes, Photographs are spontaneous and a photographer only has to worry about the composition of the photo itself without having to set it in context. Filming a documentary requires much more preparation and planning before the actual filming starts...
...treats the SDS leadership with a degree of respect verging on reverence. "Ideological contamination," the authors of Roots call it, and they argue a convincing case for the generalization. The most-often cited secondary sources on SDS were written by people who openly proclaim their sympathy for, if not actual participation in, some aspect of the New Left. Kirkpatrick Sale, author of the meticulously detailed SDS, describes the group's charter members as "a remarkable group of people... committed, energetic, perceptive, political, warm... charismatic, articulate, and (many) good-looking...
...when the original leadership gave way to a largely non-Jewish contingent, a different and more pernicious set of selfish motives drove SDS toward a hollow and violent revolutionary doctrine. Startling at first, these conclusions seem less remarkable after separating out the social science jargon and comparing the actual reasoning to existing theories...
...this month whether to approve the University's planned conversion of Craigie Arms to mostly luxury housing. Harvard has come under some of the strongest criticism it has seen in a decade. And the occasion affords the rent control board its best chance yet to convert that criticism to actual investigation...