Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the Yalies struggled gamely, The Crimson's well-refreshed team overpowered their opponents with a dazzling display of strategy and skill. Francis J. Connolly '79, the lame duck quarterback, scrambled 95 yards for a magnificent touchdown to put The Crimson in the lead...
...Cleaning services display a sense of professionalization that tends to upgrade the occupation of the domestic," says Katzman. "Traditionally the worker was hired to satisfy the employer's personal status needs; today that process is being depersonalized. The new services decide how they'll clean the house. As professionals, they don't have to listen to the housewife's way of doing things. It's more businesslike-they simply make a contract for a certain job to be done...
...into his mind. But he also appears to have no trouble relaxing at his Washington home, where he lives with his wife, Mary, a silk-screen artist; they have three children. Kahn swims, skis, jogs and likes to sing Gilbert and Sullivan tunes. A certain whimsy is often on display. In a memo he once urged his staff to avoid gobbledygook and write "as though you are talking to or communicating with real people. I have heard it said that style is not substance, but without style what is substance?" Kahn concluded: "A final example of pomposity, probably, is this...
...people have worked very hard on Comes a Horseman. They may have worked a bit too hard. A liberal-minded western set in 1940s Montana, the film has been so carefully thought out that it seems cut and dried. There are fine performances, picturesque settings and noble sentiments on display, but there are no emotional or intellectual mysteries to hook the audience's imagination. Every level of the movie's meaning can be found right on its surface. Since that surface is only rarely bestirred by action or drama, Comes a Horseman ultimately comes to nothing...
...land at first, buy used instead of. new machinery, and take a part-time job off the farm to supplement his income in the early years. But that requires a devotion to back-breaking labor and to the rural life that even many youths raised on farms no longer display...