Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gershwin musical is now at Agassiz under the co-sponsorship of Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid and North House. What do we find under the surface of Lady Be Good? Let us ponder. We find, alas, no intelligent treatment of sensitive issues, no probing of our souls' seamy undersides. At bottom, this show is clean. Unbesmirched by ambiguity, wiped of Weltshmerz, it comes to us like a babe, puerile and kicking. No meat for melodic meditation, no erudite arias, no recondite repartee a la intelligencia. In a word--a four-letter word--the book of Lady Be Good is gosh-darn...
Even if a job opens up, it takes an unconscionably long time to fill it because of all the initials required at the bottom of countless memos. The average time that elapses between requesting that a job be filled and actually getting the employee is 58.6 working days. The more important the position, the longer the delay: three months for low-level managers, six months for intermediate, almost a year at the top level. By the time an administrator has his own team in place, he may be on the way out himself. Seasoned bureaucrats know how to outwait...
...like raid. When the Egyptian transport arrived, Cypriot officials were stunned to discover that the "helpers" were Commando General Nabil Shukry and his assault team. Most were wearing combat suits. For some unexplained reason, several commandos were disguised for undercover work, some in sport clothes, a few in bell-bottom denims and platform shoes...
When Penders took over before the 1974-75 season, Columbia's once-illustrious basketball program had hit rock bottom. "The first year was a total waste," he recalls...
...correctly on each page. The new footnote would simply be a number, in brackets, that refers a reader to the corresponding number in the bibliography. Thi change is not totally revolutionary. Spared are what the author calls "content foot notes,"³ those often pointless little entries at the bottom of the page, in which scholars amuse4 themselves if not others. The author holds these in high regard: "By using footnotes judiciously you can fill your reader in on general information he lacks, satisfy his curiosity about fine points, whisper delicious tidbits in his ear, and share with him an occasional...