Word: dependance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Borden will try to grade his section this Spring fairly, he said yesterday. "People will get what they deserve. I'm not setting the median. It will depend on the performance of the group. The graduate course I taught this fall had an A-median," he said...
Sometimes Mankiewicz's emphasis on the figures is unnecessary, but the best shots in the film depend on it. A long track around the living room, accompanied by Porter's "You Do Something to Me" sums up the mood of Act Two, and these final scenes conclude with a chattering montage, as all the automata go berserk...
...purposes of undergraduate education, I do not proceed from some unconscious notion of the ideal graduate. In the brief space of four years, a college education can make only a limited contribution to the lives of its students; many of the traits and accomplishments that one would most admire depend primarily on a host of other influences and experiences. I have also put aside the subject of how a college can provide the happiest possible existence for its students. Certainly, this is an important aim in itself. Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years...
This was a week, undeniably, in which the wheels of history turned. "With the war out of the way," says a presidential aide, "the potential is there for creative tension instead of destructive disagreement." Much will depend on how the President shifts from a wartime to a peacetime leader; whether he ignores the bitter internal divisions left by the war or tries to heal them; whether he treats Congress as an enemy or a partner; whether he uses his electoral mandate as an excuse to close himself off or as an added reason to be open with the nation...
...both sides want to resume fighting, it is not clear how the combatants can be kept apart. Considering the built-in limitations of the ICC (see box, page 17), the effectiveness of the cease-fire would seem to depend mostly on the spirit of observance by the Vietnamese-a proud, stubborn, subtle people who can quietly nurture hate until the moment of retribution arrives...