Word: interests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans, in the historic traditions of this country, we avow Israel as a sovereign power in the family of nations, which sovereignty therefore must safeguard its own national interest on behalf of its citizens. America, similarly as a sovereign power, must also freely do likewise, unfettered in its foreign policy by pressures from communal minorities of Arab or Israeli ethnic sympathies, or motivated by empathy with their respective coreligionists...
...read with great interest your recent editorial on the steady erosion of the forcefulness of the word, 'fuck.' Realizing the need for an obscenity to supplant this fading epithet, we enlisted the aid of an Applied Mathematics section man to program the Harvard computer to run through the list of four-letter combinations (there are 26 to the fourth power equals 456,976 of them, if you ignore the necessity of vowels, etc.) in an effort to pick out the ten filthiest words in the English tongue. The word at the head of the list is so unbelievably obscene...
...years after his "retirement" from music, he was discovered and marveled at by listeners all over the world. He lived only a few years to enjoy his comeback, but the recordings he made as an old man were so exciting that they inspired a tremendous revival of interest in the pure New Orleans music that was still available...
FORD'S DRAMATIC vision is simultaneously forthright and elusive, and the interest of these introductory notes is only to mention two characteristics which permeate all his films. First, Ford is a master at the sudden juxtaposition of emotional quantities. Serious scenes will turn into comic ones, then revert suddenly to introspection. The greatness of this is that Ford carries the audience with him totally; we are rarely conscious of these shifts and instead experience them without question or intellectual judgment. In Donovan's Reef (1963)--a good film for examining this--the mood of each scene in the second half...
...shortcomings of the program. Regan is very eager to change all this. He talked enthusiastically yesterday about two thing: raising funds and organizing some fall activity. He wants to start a mailing campaign to Harvard alumni who have played lacrosse in an effort to stir up some interest which might bear financial fruit. This appears to be the only way that the team will be able to get the money it so sorely needs...