Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that promised to make him equal fails to do so. Disappointed, he rages against the institution that makes him once more feel interior. And efforts to help him by means of special programs only makes this inferiority even more obvious. The many black students who are well able to hold their own with the best of the rest feel hey must not desert their fellow black comrades and hence feel obligated to make their burden their very...
Heimert succeeds the late Perry Miller, the pre-eminent scholar in this field. Heimert said he was "not unmindful of the fact that the first man to hold this chair [miller] was the greatest student of American Literature...
Terse Exchange. "There has been no wrongdoing on my part," he insisted in a written explanation to Chief Justice Earl Warren. "There has been no default in the performance of my judicial duties in accordance with the high standards of the office I hold." He sent a copy to President Nixon, along with a two-sentence letter of resignation. The reply from the White House, which clearly welcomed just such an outcome, was equally terse: "I have received your letter of resignation," wrote Nixon, "and I accept it, effective as of its date...
...idea of works that can be disassembled, says Berrocal, grew out of his conviction that sculpture is primarily an art that appeals to both hand and eye. To feel what the sculptor felt when he made it, the viewer should be able to hold its weight in his hand-an experience that can be satisfyingly sensual...
Nabokov finally takes hold and orders, mirabile dictu, a Swiss red. Vera accepts, graceful in this as in everything. With finely drawn, strong features, alabaster skin, brilliant white hair, exquisite hands, she is a natural beauty. Their dinner conversation thrives on little disagreements, contrapuntal, and often not really resolved. In one exchange, Vera begins by explaining the mating ritual of the crested grebe, a grubby little bird which frequents the lake. They never touch, she says, waggling a delicate finger, but wiggle one foot back and forth. "No, no, no, no, no," says Vladimir, who has let this...