Word: concessioner
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I ONCE SAW a modern dance performance, inspired during the few years when "happenings" were in vogue. It consisted of, a) bodies winding themselves in sheets of brown wrapping paper, b) bodies taking off their clothes, c) bodies kicking bowls in the pool at the base of a fountain for...
In an important concession to the Pathet Lao, contingents of their troops will be stationed in the capitals--which are within the government zone--and 1500 Pathet Lao will be added to the police forces in the two cities.
In an extraordinary concession, the Politburo, at Brezhnev's urging, agreed to the suspension of the tax-though it could be reinstated at any time. In April, Brezhnev personally assured a group of seven American Senators visiting Moscow that he would not allow the tax to stand in the...
To which R.W. Burchfield, the O.E.D.'s chief editor, replies, in effect, "balderdash." He told the Philological Society that "we are concerned with the accurate recording of language, not what people think it should be." Burchfield's chief concession to his lexicographical critics has been to include in...
Down the Administrative ladder lies the event which has taken most of the blame for the mess, although it is probably one of the less significant instigators of the housing mess: the CHUL housing shake-up in March. At that time, Radcliffe CHUL members agreed to drop their strict insistence...