Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many experts gave both candidates low marks. Said Soviet Expert Adam Ulam of Harvard: "Neither one had any feeling for the terribly complex problems we have in dealing with Russia and the Communist countries. Much of the debate was nothing more than posturing." Added Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard: "Both candidates tended to make debating points in a way that raised doubts about the political-education value of these debates...
...files, Dapper performs favors without collecting IOU's. When many Councilors spent over $40,000 in their re-election campaigns, Dapper limited his budget to $1800 and hired no employees. The media has an unofficial black-out on his many charges, but he is occasionally seen on television or heard on a radio talk-show--the councilor cultivates his grassroots support by constant performances, not seasonal campaigns...
...highest regard by this writer for Boys and Girls Together, a novel about growing up in the 50's, published over a decade ago, that is remarkable for a set of extraordinarily well-developed characters and strikingly witty and realistic dialogue. Having failed to encounter anyone who has heard of this book, or anyone who knew of Goldman as anything other than a screenwriter, save for Marathon Man the novel, it seemed reasonable to attempt a reader-service and recommend Boys and Girls Together as a sure way to good vacation or an enjoyable week of bedtime reading. Goldman...
...plural interior monologue, the narrative is carried by the currents of a collective consciousness, the consciousness of all those whose lives have intersected with that of the general. After a few pages, punctuation seems gratuitous, and ceases, save for the caesuras of commas. Voices are heard: "we," who dare to go in and find the patriarch dead; "he," with a deceptively small "h," the patriarch; a series of "I's" who speak when their event is picked out by the roving spotlight of Marquez' description...
About 50 people heard Middlesex County Sherriff John J. Buckley and attorney Karen MacNutt speak on "should we ban private handguns...