Word: filled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expect English universities to be either relics of the Empire or temples of modernism. You will be astonished by the extent to which the structures can be penetrated by personal links and informal approaches--in academic applications particularly. You will not be required to fill out things in sextuplicate. You will find chemistry tutors who write musicals on the side, and the head of an Oxford college who also chairs a very popular radio quiz program. The most brilliant intellects will display a modesty bordering on absent-mindedness: someone who says he dabbles in Anglo-Saxon poetry may well turn...
...They? earned him an Oscar in 1970; by his own hand, after apparently shooting and killing his fifth wife, Kim Schmidt, 31, three weeks after their marriage; in Manhattan. Typecast as a second leading man who never won the girl, Young was acclaimed for his roles in Come Fill the Cup (1951) and Teacher...
...move to attract more nonbusiness customers and to fill half-empty, off-peak-hour flights, European air executives are starting to realize what their American counterparts learned this summer: lower fares lead to more customers and greater profits. Recently British Airways reduced prices as much as 40%, pegging the London-Paris round trip at $92.50, vs. this summer's $154. Lufthansa, Alitalia and KLM next week will reduce fares 15% to 25% on some flights between Germany, Italy and The Netherlands. Air France is also getting into the act with a 40% reduction on some of its round trip...
...still needs to fill ten vacancies to achieve a full 38-member body. Eight of the ten vacancies are representatives of the freshman class...
Brown uses painfully obvious devices to fill the reader in on past events. Out of nowhere, a character remarks: "Did they ever prove that Cassius Rife killed Cora's father?" One of the cast marries a Japanese man. He is apparently the only Japanese in town. No explanation is given of how he got there. When World War II breaks out, we hear that his wife bashes a Fed over the head with an umbrella when they come to take him away to an internment camp. He reappears later in the book, casually, and again no explanation is given...