Word: ets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sheehy, et...
Solomon: First of all, when we passed this law, we simply added to a list of other qualifications that students today have to comply with means test, being a high school graduate, et cetra, et cetera, et cetera. There are probably about some twenty-five various qualifications before you can qualify for a scholarship or Pell Grant. We simply added another qualification which they have to comply with. That's the law. The universities today are enforcing the other qualifications that are in the law, and we've added one more. So it isn't like we're asking them...
...musical Richter scale, it implies that you should not be altogether involved with works that get only a 3 or a 5." Yet, with the fervor of the true specialist, he will happily expatiate on Beethoven's metronome markings or Debussy's revisions in Pelléas et Mélisande...
...number one point the ex-prez seems intent on conveying to the reader. Yes, there's some biographical information on each statesmen, and some analysis of reason for their success or failure. But the book rises and falls on the anecdotes Nixon tells about Churchill, Adenauer, Yoshida, et. al., This is a tactic that could--no, should--work; after all, where Nixon really can add to history, so to speak, is through piercing insight gained through personal encounters with the greats. But not-too-strangely enough, by the end of a given chapter on a leader, the numerous anecdotes weigh...
...et Veritas," it says on the seal of Yale University. "Light and Truth." By taking a seemingly uncharacteristic position, Giamatti reminds us that a university must not only lend its support to worthy issues, but also show concern for the way that support will be used...