Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...martinis: weaker, heavier, and maybe just a trifle too bitter to be really intoxicating. In adapting the play by the British Giles Cooper, Edward Albee has unfortunately burdened an amusing premise--that a group of suburban ladies should take up part-time prostitution--with all the weight of a major statement on the Decline of the American Empire. Everything in the Garden is basically an entertainingly sardonic drawing room comedy and Albee should have treated it as such...
...built on Sheep Island, scene of The Shame. On occasion, they can also be spied upon in their town house in Stockholm's expensive residential suburb, Deer Garden. Guarding his privacy with zeal, Bergman has only once publicly ventured an opinion about the woman who has played a major role in his last three films-and in his life. "As in photography, Liv is a complete commentary unto herself," he maintains. "Besides I am in love with her-creatively and personally...
With unimpeachable acumen, Snow has thus chosen a minor theme close to the central preoccupations of the times. He has also chosen a major crime whose details are sure to titillate and open the doors to a number of fashionable speculations-about the crime of punishment, about the existence of evil and the nature of man. Working them thematically for all they are worth, Snow has produced a book that is bound to provoke a great deal of reflection-but that is also a very bad novel...
...following are major inaccuracies...
...from being "very unimportant," Linguistic theory, including transformational theory, is one of the three major areas of emphasis in the department, the others being Descriptive linguistics and Historical linguistics, and the approach in these areas too takes full account of theory, as of 1969. With M.I.T., at which our students may cross-register, there is no place in the world currently stronger in linguistic theory than Cambridge...