Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British party remains alienated from Moscow; so do nearly all the other West European and Scandinavian parties, except the tiny hard-line groups in Portugal, Luxembourg, West Germany and West Berlin. Whether the voters will understand these new distinctions is another matter. The Finnish and Swedish parties both suffered severe losses in recent elections, even though their leaders had denounced the Soviets at the time of the invasion...
...model productions are revolutionary in more than one sense. All the traditional elements of Peking opera except the singing have disappeared. Antiseptic plots portray the struggles of workers, peasants and soldiers against landlords and imperialists. The performers, appearing in subdued makeup and homespun cotton garments, substitute unadorned realism for symbolic ritual. The scores are laden with inspirational hymns and martial effects...
...students use earphones. From a master control panel at his own electronic piano, the teacher can speak or play to all or one of the students, or can listen to one or all over his own earphones. What a youngster plays is usually heard only by himself except at those moments when the teacher happens to switch him on to offer individual ad vice. If the instructor wants to give the class practice in playing the same piece together, he simply throws a switch and away they...
After talking with Dow's people (at least the people we met, most of whom were PR types) one might be excused for thinking that they had, in fact, spent their whole lives inside the plant. Except, of course, when they drove to nearby Saginaw Tri-City Airport to catch a flight to one of Dow's several hundred other plants and sales offices around the nation and the world...
...agenda included the proposal that "all grades for graduate students in courses, on examinations, and on papers should be abolished except in exams which measure technical skills such as languages." In those exams, the proposal said, the grade would be pass/ fail...