Word: biennial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dunster House was all set for its biennial dinner with President Pusey. The kitchen had purchased tender roast beef and vintage wine from the untroubled year of 1966. Pusey had prepared some "off-the-record family-party" remarks on the problems confronting Harvard-Radcliffe merger...
...sprawled over the pleasant landscape, delays mounted at the airport, and traffic began to choke the highways. Most shocking of all, the water table was becoming tainted by thousands of leaky backyard cesspools. Even this problem, which posed an imminent threat to health, seemed beyond resolution. For four straight biennial sessions, the state legislature tried to form a huge metropolitan sewer district. But suburbanites felt city dwellers were going to take advantage of them-and vice versa-so the bill failed to pass...
Last week blacks tried for greater in fluence within the United Church of Christ at its biennial assembly in Boston, promoting a Negro pastor for the presidency of the 2,000,000-member denomination and pressing for fuller representation on all committees. In Detroit, representatives of the National Black Economic Development Council met with the executive council of the Episcopal diocese of Michigan to present their demands for reparations for "centuries of oppression." In the long run, though, one of the most significant attempts to give spiritual sanction to the Black Power movement may have occurred last month in Atlanta...
...biennial meeting of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers is something like a school reunion: it's nice to see the old classmates again, but each time the participants find that they have less in common. Of the 28 Commonwealth members represented at the ten-day conference that ended in London last week, a majority no longer recognize Queen Elizabeth as their sovereign, several have left the sterling area, scarcely any regard their citizenships as interchangeable, and only two (Australia and New Zealand) still display the Union Jack on their flags. The only thing that seemed to unite them was that...
...biennial Canton Trade Fair last week, The Red Lantern was put on for Chinese and foreign visitors and broadcast over Canton television. Also, a truncated version of the work (two soloists, eight arias) has now been made into a 35-minute film for showing inside and outside China. It is about as ex citing as a Communist indoctrination lecture-which is what it is. Even the workers and peasants who have been marshalled into showings have shown enthusiasm only when a picture of Mao himself has appeared. In response to Chinese critics who compared her new style to "insipid water...