Word: host
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...proceed from some unconscious notion of the ideal graduate. In the brief space of four years, a college education can make only a limited contribution to the lives of its students; many of the traits and accomplishments that one would most admire depend primarily on a host of other influences and experiences. I have also put aside the subject of how a college can provide the happiest possible existence for its students. Certainly, this is an important aim in itself. Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life...
William F. Buckley Jr., editor of the National Review and talkative host of television's Firing Line, is usually as hard on his friends as his enemies. But for obvious reasons he was ecstatic about Federal District Judge Charles L. Brieant Jr.'s decision that Buckley did not have to be a member of a union to voice his acid views on television. "Brieant makes good sense and good reading," exulted Buckley. "Considering that the judge confesses to not ever having seen Firing Line, he is remarkably well informed...
...fireworks. It is like a great parliamentary debate in which the members orate arias with the omnipresent Shaw in the Speaker's chair. Behind it all is Shaw's master paradox: that hell is the kind of heaven most people crave, with the devil as a genial host offering comfort and the best of company. But heaven is for the ardent, soldierly few, driven by divine discontent and the life force, who see man only as an unending bridge to his better self...
...elevators, not provided by Britain's national health. On the other side was Distillers, one of Britain's largest and most profitable businesses, with assets of nearly $1 billion. Distillers makes most of the world's top-selling brands of whisky and gin and owns a host of subsidiaries. At one time these included the pharmaceutical company-since sold-that marketed thalidomide under the name of Distaval until the drug was withdrawn from the market...
...agents manning the microphones and tape recorders were spending the holiday. "Imagine the poor devils down at the KGB sitting listening to all the parties tonight and not a drop to drink," said one Western diplomat, raising another glass. A few minutes later the phone rang and the host answered. He heard no voice-only the unmistakable pop of a cork and the glug-glug pouring of champagne. Then the callers, anonymous as ever, hung...