Word: containing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for snubbing the famous is elusive. Perhaps these people do not contain enough of the Jungian common elements to be easily recognizable to us. Then again, the reason might be that the author has a conscious desire to reach the masses, the vast majority of people who pick up very few books. It could be that the novelist wants to get back to his own grass roots. Possibly the author is attracted by something as mundane as the sheer numbers of the common people or the ease with which one can fantasize about them...
...hope to improve it, to make it more readable," Alberta Arthurs, dean of undergraduate affairs, said yesterday. The proposed course guide would contain more prose and cover more classes, but would still be primarily directed towards freshmen, she said...
...stories contain little drama; the characters' search, and their eventual despair, is all quiet, internal. The Bishop of Ostergothenburg (Minnesota), who believes firmly in the hierarchy of authority but whose position is usurped by a cold, efficient assistant, doesn't go out in a blaze of glory. He is sideswiped by a truck and merely stays a while in the hospital, "doing fairly well for a man of his age, he understood, until he took a turn for the worse." And that's all. It is the understatement in these stories that make Powers such a master of his chosen...
...young and improved Harvard defensive line led by Lou Bernier, with 49 tackles and 14 assists, intends to rush Bateman and contain both he and Slattery. Ends Bob Baggot and Russ Savage will be especially important in bringing down Bateman should he roll out for a pass...
...dreamer has two things on her mind. One is to conduct Louise at the Paris Opera. The other is a new opera house -which is going to be exactly as she wants it or not at all. No recycled movie palaces, thank you. Caldwell wants a structure that will contain a small (800 seats) Baroque theater, a more traditional auditorium (2,000 seats) for 19th century opera and a larger (2,500 to 3,000 seats) hall for film, TV and experimental opera. All she needs is $40 million. That may take a while. It will surely take...