Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular American Protestant concept of heaven: there is always a reasonable flow of new arrivals; one meets many -- not all -- of one's friends . . . and the newcomer is slightly disconcerted to realize that now -- the devil having been banished and virtue being triumphant -- nothing terribly interesting can ever happen again...
...museums with works by 20th century masters. Paul Sacher, an energetic conductor, has sponsored scores by many of the century's great composers. His musical foundation holds the world's most important % collection of Igor Stravinsky's papers. While Hoffmann-La Roche officials have not disclosed what will happen to the Sacher stock after the couple dies, the shares could go into a foundation that would protect the company from possible takeover attempts...
...Told You So Department: "I warned Ken about this before. I told him it was going to happen."--Council Treasurer Michael R. Kelsen '90, immediately after last Sunday's disrupted council meeting...
...assuming, like nearly everyone who jestered near the thrones of power in Britain and America, that the games could be pubic without ever going public. Enter Profumo (Ian McKellen), who in his high-domed hairdo looks like a samurai of probity. Jack is an indiscretion waiting to happen. He has so little furtive pleasure to gain, and so much reputation to put at risk, that his dalliance has the lurid fatalism of a soap opera. Then Christine snitches to the press, and domestic melodrama stokes national tragedy...
...across the board, it would require programs such as the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program to shut down because they are not part of the academic structure. But the staff would not apply this standard across the board. It would pick and choose the activities that are socially beneficial. I happen to agree with the staff that our country needs more teachers at this point than military officers, but I would not presume to sit in judgment of student groups' relative beneficence. It is ironic and hypocritical that after praising the values of free thinking and open debate, the staff would...