Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Business School resolution is identical except for deletion of all references to the Committee of Fifteen. Like that of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it is an interim measure, pending a report by their Committee on Governance-similar in function to the Fainsod Committee-expected later this year...
...Faculty and administration and to aid curriculum reform. He says that this function is mediation, not advocacy. He is a diplomatic historian, cautious in his sentences, cradling a thin-stemmed pipe several seconds before answering any question. Small tie-knot, two-button grey suit and flat-top haircut: unobtrusive except that he seems to neigh when he smiles...
...police shift went off to the Paul Sauvé Arena to argue strike tactics instead of reporting to their beats. Suddenly the city was left unguarded. By 11:20 a.m., the first bank robbery had occurred. By noon shops began to close, and banks shut their doors to all except old customers. Early in the evening, a group of taxi drivers added to the confusion. Protesting the fact that they are prohibited from serving Montreal's airport, they led a crowd of several hundred to storm the garage of the Murray Hill Limousine Service Ltd., which has the lucrative...
...accompanied battle scenes from Viet Nam; Peter, Paul and Mary's Blowin' in the Wind underscored film clips of student demonstrations. The overall theme was Pete Seeger's Turn, Turn, Turn. The program marked what might possibly be a new pattern for TV news documentaries: except for a final three-minute, 40-second sermon from David Brinkley (in which he credited the entire decade to TV), there were no formula interviews, no ponderous philosophizing. Instead, it was a documentary full of flash and color, exciting the senses by inundating them with sights and sounds...
...more political than literary," says Lady Antonia. Her father was lecturing on politics and economics at Oxford, and her mother often joined him in active campaigning. "Books were considered the thing in our family even then, but everybody went off and made speeches about them instead of writing them." Except for Antonia. She wrote poems and plays ("At the age of eight, I thought it was perfectly easy to do anything that Shakespeare had done") and developed a lifelong passion for history and biography. "I had a childhood identification with Mary Queen of Scots," she says. "I would get some...