Word: baits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film The African Queen with a script by James Agee and direction by John Huston. Legend has it that Spiegel signed the two by assuring each that the other was committed to the project, then obtaining bank financing by claiming that both were signed. Everyone fell for the bait and Spiegel made the deal. Regardless of the percentage of actual fact in this story, Hollywood attributes to Spiegel a pretty fair job of wheeler-dealing in launching The African Queen toward production...
...plans to make his first departure from Institute tradition this fall: he will add a small School of Social Sciences to the Institute's long-established Schools of Historical Studies, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences. Kaysen envisions the new school not only as bait for good economists and other analytical social scientists, but as an addition to the field. "It would make no sense just to add a school of economics," he explains. "Harvard or Yale or Berkeley could do just as well or even better. But right now, no one is thinking about history from the social sciences point...
Therefore we need a policy to shorten the war. It is time to fish or cut bait...
...Mortar Bait. For the surrounded Marines at Khe Sanh, life is dreary days of digging deeper in their trenches and bunkers, ducking incoming fire, and cleaning and recleaning the M-16 rifles they expect to use against the NVA's 304th and 325-C Divisions. "Mortar bait!" they scream as big transports lumber onto the metal runway. Then they dart into bunkers, knowing that the planes usually attract "incoming." The Marines just sit and wait to be attacked, primarily because seeking out the enemy could cost more lives and casualty-consciousness has been drummed into every commander. The fact...
Oteri explained that the alleged obscenities were deliberate social parody. "Unfortunately, we of the older generation rise to the bait," he said...