Word: importance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would like to add several points to those made by the two letters appearing Friday a propos of the comp lit meeting last Monday. I signed the graduate students' letter, and now deeply regret having done so; the letter implies the CRIMSON's errors to be infinitely greater in import than they really are. Since I was the particular focus of an intense and personally exhausting controversy in the department, I confess I felt momentarily intimidated, and so added my name to an explanation the length and punctilious detail of which makes for an air of fearful apology I think...
CANTERBURY TALES. Four of Geoffrey Chaucer's tales are told in this musical import from London. Unfortunately, the Chaucerian spirit is largely missing. Sex is treated as a commodity and faith as an epilogue, in the manner of a Cecil B. De-Mille devotional epic...
...company spent 14 months testing the market, and its researchers interviewed scores of Volkswagen owners. For a time, the planners considered importing great numbers of Ford-made cars from Britain or Germany instead of building them in North America. Executives discarded that idea in part because they figured that it might provoke Washington to erect import quotas or raise tariffs...
...producing good theatre is thing more than a goal to Samshak. It is the essence of his whole involvement with the stage. To him, the social import of a dramatic experience is only secondary to its dramatic rightness. Although it may be possible for someone to deduce a social motif in the plays performed by the Atma, Samshak claims no such intention. "We're not carrying any political banners," he stated, "we're just doing the plays that we can perform best...
...Import Trade. The permissiveness of the law was intended to be its virtue, but it has proved to be a fault. Because the law imposes no residence requirement, the "miscarriage trade" that used to flow from Britain to Poland and Yugoslavia has been reversed. Now wealthy Americans, Canadians and Europeans, as well as women even from countries with such liberal abortion laws as Denmark's, are homing in on London. There, they can get abortions quickly and safely in private hospitals or nursing homes at fees that range from...