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...conference passed this proposal over that of the IS women's caucus, which called the conference "male chauvinist from top to bottom" and argued that it was SMC's responsibility to clearly delimit the connection between the war and the oppression of women...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: Conference Endorses SMC | 2/18/1970 | See Source »

...same inventiveness gives the film a flavor unique in Ophuls. In general his heavily decorated background settings and firmly placed foreground objects delimit an empty mid-ground where his characters move. Despite his fluid camera motions this spatial plan often imposes upon his characters, notably in Letter from an Unknown Woman and Lola Montes. The introduction of La Ronde tells us that we are in a studio and, after showing us the artificiality of the lighting and sets, invites us to accept them for their beauty, for the pleasant romance of the drama and its trappings. The first episode continues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer La Ronde at the Harvard Square through Tuesday | 11/15/1969 | See Source »

...difficult to curtail. But while the university is uniquely promising, it is also uniquely promising, it is also uniquely threatened by the pressures of ideology to which we have already referred. The university is in constant tension between its ideal critical capacity, and the powers of secular service that delimit its hope...

Author: By Richard Lichtman, | Title: A Berkeley Professor decries University complicity: "Neutrality is only conceivable with isolation" | 11/11/1967 | See Source »

...aboard ship, he turned it into Begin the Beguine. A few mornings later, Monty Woolley, who was traveling in Porter's party, stepped out on deck in his pajamas and greeted the day, saying: "It's delovely." Porter thought the line was delightful. Delicious, in fact. Delirious. Delimit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Man of Two Worlds | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...bounces around as she sings, and cuts little dance steps that underpin the structure of her song. And no matter what lines she delivers-"It's delightful, it's delicious, it's delectable, it's delirious, it's dilemma, it's delimit, it's deluxe, it's de-lovely"-she adds no fillips. She enjoys herself too. When a song finishes and she steps for a moment out of the conical spotlight glare, her face puckers like a little girl's in the near darkness and she smiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: Delicious, Delectable, De-lovely | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

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