Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their Blackness, or redness or brownness or yellowness in exchange for this torment, their Blackness or whatever, assumed in many cases a new, strange and deeper meaning. Whatever it meant, many decided then and there that whatever happened, they would not give it up or reject all that had gone into its formation...
NEARLY EVERYONE at Harvard has had the painful experience of taking courses with experts who cannot communicate their knowledge. While discussions of teaching skills have always been included in departmental recommendations for tenure, the recommendations have rarely gone deeply into that aspect of the candidate's ability. Research and teaching have both been criteria for tenure, but the emphasis has undoubtedly been on the former...
...Indochina seems to have been derailed. Broadcasts from Hanoi and Vientiane have been sharply hostile to Tanin's government. Still, former Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj dismisses the possibility that Thai opposition groups-even aided by the Vietnamese-can wage real guerrilla war. Instead, he predicts, those who have gone underground or into exile "will be back on bended knees to ask forgiveness so they can go back to the baths, massage parlors and nightclubs. The jungle is not for them...
Some 95% of the bank's personal loans have been made to women, although the bulk of commercial loan dollars has gone to "prime accounts" like Gulf & Western Industries-not primarily too small, female-run enterprises, as might have been expected. Says Benedict: "Our loan policy is no different from other banks." As a new institution, he adds, First Women's must be extra cautious in lending money because otherwise "every deadbeat in town will beat a path to our door...
Silly, certainly. But the plots for such flights into never-never land have never been notable for probability. The movie could have worked with hard effort and a little magic, but something has gone terribly wrong. Director Minnelli's once wondrous alchemy turns everything to lead. The movie is disjointed, sappy, hysterical; and the actors, perhaps sensing trouble, press on with painful, overbearing desperation. American-International, the distributor, has substantially recut the movie, which is easy enough to believe. A Matter of Time does not look at all like a Minnelli movie. The fastidious craftsmanship that he has through...