Word: comed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ideally the compliance officer would do more than simply monitor the agreement; he would also actively work to iron out problems arising in the implementation of the agreement. And problems-serious ones-will inevitably arise. Any appreciable increase in black employment on construction here cannot come from University action alone, but only as a result of continual and complex bargaining among Harvard, white contractors and sub-contractors, black sub-contractors, and white unions...
...Well, I can see that you will be a success in whatever career you choose. You're going to have to work at it, though; it won't just come to you." This girl must have a maternal fixation, I thought. Probably an occupational hazard...
...ASKED me if I had any questions. I wasn't prepared for that, although in retrospect I realize that this must be the reason most people come to a place like this. I asked if she could tell me what my career would be. Unfortunately. it seems my palm isn't that specific. I inquired if I could ask her a few questions. She acquiesced...
...Come back soon," she said. "Bring your friends. I know you will come back." Well, I thought, that's one prophecy that won't be fulfilled. "Good luck," she smiled softly. "Thanks," I said, handed her the five, and walked by the icons, the baby, the peeling walls, past the crimson living room, down the winding stairs, and out into the Manhattan street...
...film's every turn and nuance is heightened, given immediate meaning for the character involved, as much by its understated acting as by its simple shooting style. Carol Dempster has come far from the frolics she and Lillian Gish gave Griffith's films of the earlier twenties. And Adolphe Menjou, as Satan, is the model of restraint. For him a grimace or devilish leer would be an unspeakable faux pas. But Griffith, far from leaving him a polished gentleman without depth of character, makes his slightest gestures personally significant. Menjou is eating dinner with Ricardo Cortez in the grandest...