Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hall was perhaps best-known at Harvard for his cost-cutting proposals, which incuded one for the installation of storm windows around campus: "Whether or not such storm windows should be triple-track or double-track has been resolved on the basis that sufficient information does not exist at present to warrant a commitment of several hundred thousands of dollars to install either type on residential buildings until it is known for sure that the awareness and attitudes of the inhabitants of these buildings until it is known for sure that the awareness and attitudes of the inhabitants of these...
Here I feel as though I were living in the Southern U.S. of the early 1800s. I believe the progress in the American South will eventually result in more harmonious race relations than now exist in other areas of America. I cannot predict the same for South Africa...
...merely a shrine to tragic heroes and lost causes. There will be many new exhibits, including ones depicting the position of blacks under slavery. They will be designed for a rising generation that is less interested in venerating the past than in moving onward. Yet, inevitably, what will now exist is a gleaming new shell for old values...
Courtrooms where blacks are not accorded the courtesy of Mr. or Mrs. still exist. Interracial couples face severe-often unbearable -harassment in small Southern towns. But because the other vestiges of a segregated Southern society have largely disappeared, there is reason to hope that those remaining will disappear as well...
...serve his country as an unofficial undercover agent. Specifically his assignment is to gather information against an erstwhile chum, a hoodlum played with menacing Southern smarm by Jerry Reed. The hood has become the chief source of corruption in one of those corrupt little Southern towns that may only exist in popular fiction, where their function is to focus the otherwise vague regional fears of Northern liberals. In his pursuit of Reed, the reluctant Reynolds becomes involved with an engaging assortment of odd characters: Jack Weston as a New York-born Government man parboiling in sweaty paranoia; Alice Ghostley...