Word: directe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of alumni, undergraduates and community activists targeted O'Donnell because he has recently been chosen as the co-chairman of a joint committee of overseers and Corporation members that will investigate the University's investment policy. The formation of the committee was approved as an alternative to a direct Overseers' vote on divestment...
...other force was Senior Mark Prascak's organization, Undergraduate Histrionics (UGH). Prascak set out to direct interactive plays, staging them in such places as the Adams House swimming pool and among the tables and chairs of the Adams dining hall. Audiences found his confrontational staging and his absurdist revisions of classic plays either inventive or infuriating, but the shows got people talking, even people who hadn't seen them. That is no small achievement, considering that most campus theater productions are seen by few and forgotten by most after their two-weekend runs...
...stood peacably," Charney said, "He saidsomewhat defensively or to explain himself thathe'd given Yale a lot of money--and that's almosta direct quote--and that the alumni should have asay also, or something like that...
Seeking to cash in on the rising interest in seeing America, U.S. promoters are making direct appeals to potential customers abroad. Londoners have seen 30-second TV spots sponsored by the California office of tourism in which British TV Personality Denis Norden touts the merits of Hollywood, Disneyland and Fisherman's Wharf. "The Golden Gate is red," Norden intones while the majestic San Francisco bridge flickers onscreen, giving way to a stand of trees. "Giant redwoods are green." Europeans who want brochures on Disney World and other attractions in Florida can now write directly to a British address...
When Helms ran for the Senate in 1972, he showed both his political savvy and his genius for raising money, pioneering direct-mail solicitations and founding a fund-raising apparatus that became one of the most formidable in the nation. In his 1984 bid for a third term, Helms spent $18 million on the most expensive Senate campaign ever, yet he defeated former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt by a scant...