Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist nations began dismantling the intricate economic controls that had been necessary to cope with the military emergency. India was a major excep tion, for tight regulation of the economy fitted neatly into Jawaharlal Nehru's doc trinaire socialist blueprint for his newly independent nation. Many of the con trols on business survive to this day, and they are charged with retarding In dia's growth in the past two decades...
...cuts, employed no secrets. She took copious notes in her lectures, concentrated only on "doing well." She studied hard, but never past midnight, because "I get too tired." Her string of A's actually worried her, since "grade-grubbing is not a particularly healthy attitude toward education." She con fesses that she "might have been relieved if I had gotten...
...sober, analytic-minded pro fessionals who today dominate the na tion's philosophy departments, William Ernest Hocking would hardly be con sidered a philosopher at all. A courtly old man who puttered about his 650-acre hilltop farm near New Hamp shire's White Mountains, carrying bird seed in his pockets, Hocking customari ly listed his occupation on income tax forms as "writer-farmer." Unfashionably, he dealt with the grand intellec tual themes that have traditionally pre occupied those who love wisdom: God, the nature of man, the meaning of life. Indeed, when he died last week...
...housed in Lincoln Center, stands to lose $500,000 per annum in rent on the proposed office building; worse yet, the Met would have to pay a pretty penny just to keep its old home in repair. Taking all that into account, Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, 78, reported con brio in the U.S. House of Representatives: "By saving the building, they may destroy opera in New York." Besides, "some of the members of this citizens' group would think Puccini was the name of a spaghetti...
Cloportes is French for lice-and slang for the killers, con men, pimps, prostitutes and safecrackers of the Paris underworld. The movie begins with a comically bumbled robbery, and continues on the strength of its fallout. A rough-hewn racketeer (Lino Ventura) goes to prison for the job, hating himself almost as much as he hates the doublecrossing colleagues who have ruined his pursuit of beaux-arts - to lease a blowtorch for the caper, he was forced to sell one of his stolen Braques. His time served, the former art collector returns to Paris and starts turning over rocks, bent...