Word: line
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have watched the onetime economics professor routinely offend the Congress, the oil and gas industry, consumers and even his own Department of Energy, that news is hardly a surprise. But this time Schlesinger may have gone too far. His loyal sponsor, the President, finds Schlesinger's public hard line toward the Mexicans a liability, and when the energy czar last month repeated his view that Mexico's price for natural gas was too high, Carter was furious. His aides swiftly dissociated the President from the Secretary's speech...
...when you take the bus deep into Boston, to the bus station, to Dudley Station, when you head off for the summer to non-institutional life. Though euphemisms like "academic community" and "a community of learned men and women" cloak it. Harvard is, at the bottom line, an institution. "We grind you out like link-sausages," the professor says in Marathon Man. Look around you. Harvard is a singularly dangerous institution, at that...
...true, why should the ad board discourage sick people from petitioning for make-up exams? Assuming--as the administration seems to--that the list of medical excuses has risen because of abusers, is it really fair to inconvenience the truly ill in order to keep the malingerers in line? And why do more and more students feel compelled to duck their exams? These questions have been handled conveniently in the past two weeks, but not adequately...
...characters except Gortner's are themselves cliches; the unsatisfied wife, the frustrated greaser, the fat waitress, the nice-guy motel-keeper. The characters line up almost exactly like those in The Petrified Forest, but in that film they were three-dimensional. In Red Ryder the characters are all foils for Teddy's contempt. None of them are allowed to do anything but whimper or get hysterical. When Red Ryder finally goes after Teddy and shoots him down, the film has already lost us. The final act of bravery, unlike Leslie Howard's in Petrified Forest, makes little impact, because...
...trying to straddle the line between a news format, like the New York Times, and the format of a scholarly journal," Jennifer A. Widner '79, editor-in-chief, said Monday...