Word: lay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, the aspirations of France and the dictates of De Gaulle have appeared to be inseparable?a tribute to both his undeniable greatness and his penchant for saying it so often that people believed it. Last week the myth that France and De Gaulle are one lay shattered forever amid the garbage festering in the streets of Paris, the litter of uprooted paving stones, the splinters of chestnut trees hacked down to make barricades, the blood spilled on the capital's boulevards. France was a nation in angry rebellion ?at times, it seemed, not far removed from civil...
...aggressive president, Albert Shanker, who was jailed for 15 days last winter after leading his union through a three-week citywide strike. At the state capitol, 500 lobbying teachers jammed the corridors. They argued that decentralization would in effect be turning the schools over to demagogues, warned that numerous lay boards might intensify latent racial and political conflicts in the city and give parents, rather than professionals, the right to dictate curriculums. "We don't like little districts," said Shanker. "Little districts can be taken over by little Hitlers...
...showing Jacob with Laban's flocks (see color overleaf). As the tale is related in Genesis, Laban, who owned the sheep, told Jacob he would be paid for tending them with any lambs born spotted or speckled, and Jacob's method of inducing speckled progeny was to lay peeled branches before their eyes. The Bible says it worked...
...democratic as possible in all its branches may sound pleasant, but in practice it is not possible. The proposed expansion of Overseer representation would require an act by the Massachusetts General Court, and it is inconceivable that any Massachusetts legislature would favor handing the review powers of Harvard's lay Board of Overseers over to a Board that includes interest groups from within the University. Under a Massachusetts Act of 1865, only degree holders outside the University government are eligible...
...paid off, and the orchestra was thoroughly successful on its own! Despite attacks of imprecision, the strings and winds together were able to spin out Ravel's beautiful net of sound. In the Stravinsky, the orchestra avoided most of the hazards and played most of the notes where they lay. Stravinsky did the rest...