Word: embarking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buries part of himself, and he is not likely to stand beside that grave dry-eyed. Philadelphia, Here I Come! is a young man's leave-taking crammed into one night, as Gareth O'Donnell says goodbye to the Irish village of Ballybeg and prepares to embark by jet for America, "a vast, restless place that doesn't give a curse about the past." The play is honest, lyrical, unaffected and affecting...
...that emerged during his last years in America, his brush became even freer, the paint more heavily modelled, and the stroke stronger and more concise. In the beginning he occupied himself as a portraitist to support his family and get himself established. But soon he had an opportunity to embark on a career as a painter of historical scenes when he was commissioned to paint well known Watson an the Shark. That work was followed by the Death of the Earl of Chatham in 1779 which enjoyed great critical plaudits. By 1780 Copley was at the height of his powers...
...Nakuru as a brewery director. Says Blundell, who was in charge of putting down the Mau Mau insurrection: "I know now that there is no relationship between the African's outlook today and what it was before. He is much happier and more contented. It is stupid to embark on a policy which must fundamentally turn the African into your enemy. You would then have to control him ad infinitum, and that isn't bloody possible...
Harvard Medical School is spiritually as well as physically removed from Cambridge. Most happy undergraduates love the College because of the tremendous freedom it allows them to explore Harvard's enchanted wood. No doubt, you would expect even more freedom when you embark on a graduate program at the Medical School. Not so. You are officially an undergraduate for all of the four years it takes you to get an M.D., and you will be treated accordingly. In place of the nonchalance of the College, you will encounter a regimentation reminiscent of high school. For its first two years, your...
...only solution is population control. We would do well to embark on such a program before we are overwhelmed by numbers...