Word: happening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left the building that night at about midnight. Three hours later he was coming back to do more research. He saw the explosion from his car miles away. He says that people were doing experiments in the facility that they shouldn't have been doing. But that wouldn't happen now, Pipkin says, because Harvard takes more precautions...
...Sirica about whether they wished to subpoena the taped conversations of President Nixon. "I wondered whether they would stand firm. Each one did. Now suppose Roger Sherman had walked into that courtroom at that time. Would he not have said, 'This is just the way it should happen. Here are the representatives of the people of the United States calling their highest official to account...
...Army, a company of Virginia riflemen, rebelled against discipline and had to be surrounded and disarmed. "Such a dirty, mercenary spirit pervades the whole," the exasperated general wrote in a rare display of open anger, "that I should not be at all surprised at any disaster that may happen." As for the much vaunted New England troops, Washington confided to a friend, "I daresay the men would fight very well (if properly officered), although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people...
Whatever the cause, things happen fast in this play; there is not time for leisurely exploration of motivations and developments--such as we get in Othello. So the onset of jealousy here is rather sudden, yet a fine player like Kerr can make it work. It must be remembered that The Winter's Tale is a tale, that Shakespeare was here, as in the other three late romances, presenting a myth, where there is more emphasis on the parade of incidents and their implications than on depth of character. If the performers can round out their roles, so much...
...arguments on both sides, it is impossible to predict with any accuracy what would happen to the price and supply of oil if major companies were dismantled. Even with divestiture, some companies would be giants; as far as accounting figures can be interpreted, just Exxon's refining and marketing operation would make it the second largest corporation in the world behind General Motors. Oil Economist Morris Adelman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sees no great loss or gain from breaking up the oil companies and thinks the effort is a "waste of time." Yet the issue will probably...