Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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House leaders on both sides of the aisle are deeply disturbed by the vulnerability of members to single-interest lobbies. "It's a lot more difficult to say no to anybody," says Obey, "because so many people have well-oiled mimeograph machines." These lobbies have grown more influential as campaigns have become more expensive. To relieve the pressure, the Democratic leadership is pushing for public financing of campaigns...
...There is a whole lot of information on company practices in South Africa no one will ever get anyway," she said. "If they can't do anything about it, why bother at all with the attempt?" she added...
...past, he has thought about undergraduate drama, casually, as an appendix to the larger topic of theater and the university, but I don't think he ever realized he'd have anything to do with it, or had any desire to participate actively in its evolution. It took a lot of fast, shuffling to present such a program to the university and the students, and that's one aspect of his hiring that legitimately enraged the HRDC--that his undergraduate proposals appeared half-hearted, and perhaps a bit insensitively thrown-together. But while I sympathize with the HRDC's fears...
...gaps. At most, it could be the beginning of a new era for the performing arts at Harvard, and a model for the teaching of drama at every school in this country. We risk little--a few productions a year in the Loeb--and stand to gain a whole lot. Let's drop our suspicions and embrace the possibilities...
Cynthia Herbig, a former member of the Class of '79, was murdered in a parking lot in downtown Washington D.C. last week...