Word: filled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government Professor Michael Walzer: "We can't function as a nutritionist who tells his patients that they are very intelligent and that there's a supermarket around the corner." Proponents also argue that even though the new requirements are more rigid than existing ones, they would still fill only a quarter of an undergraduate's schedule, the same as in the present system. That would leave the equivalent of two years for a major area of study and one year for electives...
...best scenes show him at his office dickering with the fast-talking agents who assaulted him day and night. McIntire listens to auditioning singers for only a few bars before turning thumbs up or down, and he exercises his power with sleazy theatrical relish. Unfortunately, even McIntire cannot fill in the movie's most gaping holes: we never do learn about Freed's personal life or even how the man discovered his then radical professional calling...
Disco-pop lovers can fill the Felt Forum on March 25 and 26 at 7 and 11 p.m. to see the Sylvers, who will bring their music to the Garden for Easter weekend...
...movies can fill only part of each day. I may rise at noon or later; still I have many hours to fill' and my hometown doesn't offer much scintillating entertainment. The tree-lined streets are very placid and social life in the town is about the same. My town sports Playland, an amusement park famous county-wide, but in spring all anyone can do is stare at the deserted rides. There are two bars in town, but I have grown weary of watching the local football players and their fawning cheerleaders. Visiting the old high school doesn't tempt...
...expects me to do anything but collapse into bed, wake up for meals that put Adams House cooking to shame, and drift back to sleep again. But parental tolerance of the sleep-gorge-sleep regimen wanes quickly, and then, at least in my family, I am expected to fill the 'rents in on the details of life at school: intellectual pursuits stimulating lectures and an exhilerating, whirlwind, cosmopolitan social life. Unfortunately, words fail me here, because much of my life is spent hunched over a typewriter contracting curvature of the spine and shortchanging the glorious intellectual pursuits my family values...