Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ministry to Harvard College--and rejected it. In 1965, one possible area for divinity student field work was freshman counselling. "But we all said, 'Go over to those man-eating atheists? Forget it,'" Gomes recalled. "It's hard to believe, but we Divinity students were really intimidated by a bunch of pubescent Harvard freshmen...
...Chinese Revolutionary Opera called "The People's Opera Glorifying Revolutionary Heroes One-Eyed Jack and Toronto." With Red Flags and posters of Mao, it plays the stereotypes to the hilt, and with saving grace, perceptibly manages to suggest that Nixon and Kissinger were conned like a bunch of yokels last year by the ceremonious hoo-hah of their Chinese hosts...
Some Senators and Congressmen are particularly opposed to helping North Viet Nam, such a recent enemy of the U.S., at all. "They'll be ice skating in hell the day I vote any assistance for that bunch of murderers in Hanoi," declared Ohio's Democratic Congressman Wayne L. Hays. Some Democrats want to use their refusal to vote Indochina aid as a club to force Nixon to yield in his running battle with Congress over his impounding of funds already appropriated. Even such a longtime supporter of foreign aid as Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey said...
Last week in Germany such a work appeared. The orchestra pit of the Hamburg State Opera was empty, and up on the stage strode the weirdest bunch of non-human heavies since Wagner peopled his Ring cycle with gnomes, mermaids, dragons and bears. Five 21-ft. chrome-and-steel towers reeled in patterns that owed less to choreography than to the movement of armored tank columns. They were directed from backstage by electronic remote control, and were adorned with mirrors (20 to a tower) that caught the sunburst of spots, strobes and color projectors that beamed down upon them...
...Operation Breakthrough did underwrite some production, but the department never laid out anywhere near as much money as builders had expected. Says Kenneth D. Campbell, president of Audit Investment Research, which specializes in real estate: "It wasn't really an industry at all. Just a bunch of companies with big hopes.' Some companies like Behring and Potlatch took great pains in design mg and equipping their plants, only to find that they could not generate enough volume to cover their investment and high fixed operating costs...