Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus did Marchais demonstrate that the motive for his break with the Socialists last fall had more to do with power politics than with ideology. The Communist Party, once the dominant political force on the left, has been overshadowed by the Socialists in recent years. Communist support has remained roughly stable-about 20% of the electorate-but the Socialists have climbed from 5% to nearly 30% since 1969. Marchais obviously felt that it would be better for the left to lose the elections altogether if the Communists could not win on their own terms. Mitterrand was clearly angered...
...stars Pop Singer Olivia Newton-John and Travolta, who has already scored a huge success as a '70s greaser in Saturday Night Fever. "It's going to be a '70s look at the '50s," says Director Randal Kleiser. "Stylistically, the actors will stop and break into song-that's old-but we are using all the '70s film techniques we can muster, like split screens and high-powered sound...
...shooting for 16' 9", which will break the Harvard record (16' 8") and qualify me for the NCAA's," noted Stiles. The last Harvard vaulter to qualify for the Nationals was Steve Schoenover in 1962. He still holds the University record...
...these problems, we must first closely examine the proposed composition of the CRR (seven faculty, six students). Faculty members will still command a majority. The reform proposals triumphantly note that the faculty chairman "will vote only to break a tie." This is meaningless propaganda: the faculty chairman will vote only when his vote counts. The CRR is small, and a tie is not at all unlikely. Also, students might have to be disqualified, as they were after the 1969 strike, from the CRR, if they participated in the events under judgment, thus increasing the faculty majority. Indeed, 46 per cent...
Elizabeth Bowen has its flaws. But she does not fall into the trap of equating importance with length. If dropped, her book will not break the reader's foot. Ultimately, the biography does what it is supposed to do: it rekindles interest in the writer and in her works...