Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Bok continues to testify before Congress and issue policy pronouncements in an attempt to influence a modern world, claims about the university's independence from political obligations lose their credibility. It is time for Harvard to leave behind the concept of education in isolation and accept the responsibilities accompanying its expanded role...
...guess, there is a great deal of unnecessary filler used to pad the otherwise flat main idea. For example, too much of the plot revolves around Leslie's attempt at cooking dinner for the IRS agent and his would-be mother-in-law (what else would a wife do?). The dish, 'mung-chowder gumbo' is like much of the play's intended humor--it never materializes. Aside from the failed attempts at comedy, the play strives to excite some reaction from an otherwise limp audience with a series of sexist jokes. Lines such as "you're my kind of woman...
However, David McKillop, director of the comprehensive test ban task force of the proarms control Committee for National Security, called the new tactic an attempt to resume testing "without the monkey on their back" put there by Gorbachev's moratorium...
...said that the university had made no attempt to warn the CAA that it had planned to dismantle the shanties and had done so in "an underhand, covert fashion...
...whole attempt to find internal explanations must wait until there is a science that tells what goes on inside," said Skinner, adding that the science of neurology may eventually develop instruments to measure internal states...