Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interest in tennis, which started in 1968 when professionals were first allowed to play at Wimbledon. It is healthy for the game that more good players can make a comfortable living from it. I do have reservations about some of the directions that tennis is taking. I do not enjoy watching one-set matches. Even the best player can lose a set. Also, I do not like what they are calling audience participation. The language sometimes used between players and spectators is embarrassing and tends to bring the game down to a mediocre level. Still, tennis today is superior...
...have to ignore lines like that if you're going to enjoy The Towering Inferno, but the view that the movie itself is a monument to bullshit and concupiscence is unfounded. It's very easy to hype a popular film by calling it a cinematic masterpiece, as Pauline Kael has done so unfortunately with movies like Shampoo and Last Tango in Paris. The disaster film is an urban adventure, like a police or hospital melodrama, but the very magniture of the pseudo-events it chronicles--possible only on screen--give it a dignity beyond its intrinsic merit. When combined with...
...Americans also found that their hosts, Cosmonauts Aleksei Leonov and Valery Kubasov, enjoy more luxurious living quarters than U.S. astronauts use at Cape Canaveral. For now, the world will have to be content with the astronauts' verbal descriptions of the little they saw at the space center. The Russians scheduled the visitors' arrival and departure to occur after dark, and requested that they leave their cameras in their hotel rooms...
When this dormitory, the "Indian College." was torn down in 1696, Harvard petitioned the Society for permission to use the bricks to build a new structure. The society agreed on the conditions that Indians "should enjoy their studies rent-free in such a building...
...Economics Department, while claiming that professors in Economics are recovering from the political controversies that have improperly engrossed the department's energy, simultaneously feels that the Houses are now on the decline. "There is a weaker attachment to the Houses than there used to be. The faculty used to enjoy the attachment. It was an amorphous thing, but it did lend something to student-faculty relations. The change may be a by-product of 1969--the habit of getting to the Houses regularly may have been broken. There is a problem in maintaining momentum...