Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every national publication have pointed out, a gloppy mixture of Annie Hall and Interiors--bits of the former's clever humor sprinkled on top of a stale layer of the latter's unbearable dialogue. Manhattan is black-and-white, entertaining, not quite as good as Annie Hall, but better than most other movies you could choose to see. If Allen ever overcomes the paralysis his years of psychoanalysis have induced in his capacity to write serious dialogue, he may yet emerge as the American Bergman. Until then, he should stick to comedy. And stay away from 17-year-olds...
...should have a clear idea as to what that means. This problem was referred to by President Bok at the very close. Withdrawal means, in most cases, selling at a distress price to a Japanese or European firm whose attitude toward apartheid is apt to be worse, not better. The money thus realized must be invested for several years in South African government securities paying an interest rate about half that of the market. In other words, one must pay a ransom of some 40% of the sale price to the government that is the very cause...
Both teams played good lacrosse, but the Minutemen were better in winning their third straight game. "We're hot now," superstar attackman Brooks Sweet exclaimed after the game. UMass defensive standout Roger Coe explained, "The better the team we play the better we play...
UMass got great efforts from Sweet and Coe, but the Minutemen midfielders made the difference. UMass outplayed the Crimson in the ground game, controlling 46 ground balls to Harvard's 38 while exhibiting better stamina...
Some, like President Bok, maintain that we should remain in the arena and exert what influence we can to bring about change for the better. Bok even suggests that disassociation constitutes an abdication of our moral responsibility to stay in there and fight But we all know that we are too pure and holy to contaminate ourselves by such contact with the seamier manifestations of human nature. We are above all that...