Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amid the mounting clamor of student groups calling for Harvard's divestiture of its holdings in the banks--Citibank and Manufacturers Hanover Trust--the investment firm that controls part of Harvard's investment portfolio suddenly announced it was selling the bank stocks "for investment reasons...
George Sigular, assistant treasurer of the University, said yesterday he believed the investment firm "is totally unaware of what's going on here on campus on this issue...
...extraordinary subtlety and power--"he really does seem to have more in his little finger than most dancers have in their whole bodies," the New Yorker's Arlene Croce has remarked--and the movement of his dances, radiating from a center of balance in the lower spine, demands a firm technique. Despite the disjunction between music and dance, another key component of Cunningham style is rhythm. But as former dancer Brown explains, "Merce requires...that the rhythm come from within: from the nature of the step, from the nature of the phrase, and from the dancer's own musculature...
...Burlington, Vt. Last month a major uproar broke out when Canada's largest life insurance company, Sun Life Assurance Co. (assets: $5.5 billion), announced that it was moving its headquarters from Montreal to Toronto. After urgent personal pleas from Prime Minister Trudeau, Sun Life officials said that the firm and its 1,800 head-office employees would stay?for two more years...
...which Los Angeles-based Pinnacle Books has added yet another. Why? Because the firm has also published Return to Wuthering Heights and hopes that the Brontë novel will serve as a teaser for its sequel. Fair enough. The more copies of Wuthering Heights available the better, for it is unquestionably the best of the hundreds of derivative gothic paperbacks published each year. Both Emily Brontë and her sister Charlotte (Jane Eyre) helped raise gothic fiction to the level of art. Before them, emotion-churning novels had been ludicrous affairs, monsters produced by the sleep of 18th century reason...