Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed curriculum study grew out of several influences including the April student strike, in the Harvard community, May said. "It is clear that there is dissatisfaction among students, and a good deal of open-mindedness toward consideration of change among the Faculty," he said...
...Project; the other was that it not join the policy board but allow individual professors and students to accept money from the Project. Dean Ford declined last night to say which of these recommendations the Research Policy Committee adopted; the vote on which recommendation to approve was "clear but not unanimous," he said...
...standard paraphernalia of stigmata, deformity, mud and fire, The Milky Way offers no unified vision, no system of thought or style. The lack of cohesion is deliberate, claims Buñuel: "Mystery is the essential element of every work of art. If a work of art is clear, then my interest in it ends...
Voltaire failed from a kind of perfection. Everything came easily to him except a certain divinely vulgar excess. He was, as one critic complained, a "chaos of clear ideas." He accused Shakespeare of being "barbarous," "unbridled," "low" and "absurd." Exactly. And that coarse strength is what we miss at last in Voltaire. By his masterly demonstration of the farthest reach of reason, he finally showed how much lies beyond...
...Central Europe late in World War II. The adversaries are a depraved lot of American military and a handful of German exiles-who all want to beat the Allies at setting up the postwar government in Germany-and an equally desiccated lot of Nazis whose aims seem less clear, but whose posturings and preoccupations are more exotic. There is, of course, a doomed agent who is the pawn of both groups. The days of John le Carré's simple, cigarette-smoking depressive are over, however. Our man is just down from the Alps, where he lived and worked...