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...added that since Harvard's supplies are delivered by rail, the strike, which affects food supplies delivered by trucking companies across state lines, probably will not interrupt Harvard's supplies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Truckers Labor Dispute | 4/3/1979 | See Source »

Taking the muted approach, Stewart and his staff convened all 107 high school teachers at 7:15 a.m. and urged them to break the news to small groups of students during homeroom periods. "We decided not to interrupt school routine in any way," he said. During the day, the school's seven guidance counselors, joined by 15 Ridgewood clergymen, set up desks around the high school, offering counseling to any students who wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Trouble in an Affluent Suburb | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...recitation of memories interspersed with philosophy. It reads like a dreamy monologue, as if the reader and Miss Seldes went home together after her evening performance, and she began to describe her career. The soliloquy soon disregards the rules of sequential narration, as if the speaker began to interrupt herself, linking events by theme rather than by time, injecting the insights of the present into the past...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: A Life on the Stage | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Wanda: Did you see here that two sociologists have just proved that men interrupt women all the time? They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Women Talk | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

Petric's "lack of manners" is legendary. Often he will interrupt section leaders in his own course, and berate them for missing small details. To some, this quality of aggressive bluntness makes Petric exasperating; others find it endearing. As section leader Robert Tranchin explains it, Petric applies the same rigorous standards to his own work as he applies to others...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Vladimir Petric Teaches Film | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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