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...once told the young man that he had talent; as a private joke, he had told everybody in the class the same thing. Now, the student has 15 beer cases full of his handwritten novel and a gun to keep Jupe's attention from wandering. Messages begin to loom at this point. Jupe must be taught that Words Have Meaning; he must experience at first hand the Relationship Between Criticism and Creation...
...hysteria subsides--and it is beginning to subside--people will begin to look for perspective, for the relative importance of things. Not that they'll ever say that Watergate was a good thing. It just won't loom quite as large...
...year masters degree program for professional training in planning. Although most members of the faculty defend the CRP's current curriculum, a few professors have voiced criticisms even sharper than those of the visitors, terming the program inadequate for a professional's background. This issue may loom even larger during the coming year as the CRP decides whether to apply for renewed recognition from the American Institute of Planners, which would in turn require the AIP to re-evaluate Harvard's program...
...little questions within the big question-Did he really conceive and carry out the assassination of King alone?-would loom large once more. Where did this inept criminal get the money to finance his year of flight, from April 23, 1967, when he broke out of the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City, through the slaying of King and Ray's arrest at London's Heathrow Airport on June 8, 1968? Where did he pick up the savvy to adopt four clever aliases in Canada during that flight and then acquire a passport to travel to London...
...conflict. But with Israel fully rearmed by the U.S. since the '73 war and the Arabs indifferently resupplied by Moscow, the Arab "confrontation states"-Syria, Jordan and Egypt-are not very well prepared for another war. Thus the real showdown in the Geneva delay is beginning to loom between Israel and the Carter Administration. Washington accepts Israel's insistence on the importance of true peace, but not its aim of retaining vast tracts of captured Arab land. If these differences between Washington and Jerusalem cannot be thrashed out, the road to Geneva could become a quagmire...