Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most students agree that the grade as it stands is meaningless, but many express concern with the impression, that an ungraded course would make on graduate schools other than Harvard. One junior objected to the change because "it's the one A I can be sure of getting at Harvard...
Finally, Alaska's Senator Ernest Gruening, one of the most vocal critics of Administration policy in Viet Nam, delivered a furious speech in the Senate: "Unhappily, the U.S. press has been gravely derelict in reporting what has transpired in the OAS with regard to the Dominican crisis. Commentators express doubts regarding the wisdom of expanding our mission to prevent a Communist takeover. Many reports question the extent of Communist infiltration. Yet, to my knowledge, none of the major wire services, newspapers or radio-television systems have taken the trouble to examine the findings of the OAS investigating team...
...rapid-telephone reservations, introduced a new cola drink (HoJo) and is expanding to the West Coast. The younger Johnson also increased the number of corporate vice presidents from four to 45, moving his father to comment: "I had a lot of good people, but they were not allowed to express themselves as they...
Montoya was very good in the lead role, both verbally and mimetically. As the professor became increasingly less fatuous and more monstruous, Montoya's characterization kept pace. He was fully able to express the variety of moods demanded by the part, from the timid but pompous gentleman of the beginning to the frenzied, lewd murderer of the climax. His fluent dialogue was matched by a physical command of the role, as much in his comic pantomimes before an invisible blackboard as in his sinister posture just before the murder, when he crouches next to his victim like something inhuman...
...dinner at the West End's elegant Prunier's restaurant. After coffee, he absentmindedly left behind under the table 18 sheets stamped "Confidential." At a nearby table was a Conservative businessman, Geoffrey Blundell-Brown, who gleefully retrieved the papers, read them, then called the Daily Express to lambaste the lapse. With that, Blundell-Brown returned the documents. Crossman said he was "much obliged"; Harold Wilson doubtless was much embarrassed...