Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a woman student enrolled in a small departmental course this fall required for her concentration, she looked forward to working closely with an eminent scholar. But in the first few weeks of class, she quickly came to realize that close contact with this professor might offend her personal dignity more than it would ever aid her academic growth...
AQUICK-STRIKE FORCE would be no help to future presidents faced with crisis like the embassy takeover, except to give them one more option that could endanger hostage' lives. But it would be very convenient for future Secretaries of State who might itch to tip the balance in some civil war in Africa or Asia. Proponents of the force say that today our government understands the dangers of intervening in complex local conflicts, and would only use a quick-strike force to defend our "legitimate interests...
...Feinberg criticizes Senator Long for saying that our income tax structure is "progressive to the point of being counter-productive." It might interest Mr. Feinberg to know that at present our highest marginal tax rates generate very little revenue. Furthermore, the institution of more progressive tax structures than ours in such countries as England and Sweden has only succeeded in forcing wealthy potential taxpayers to move themselves (and their incomes) to lands with more favorable tax laws. Does Mr. Feinberg seriously want the United States to introduce such a self-defeating system? Ted Higgins...
...distinctive vision.' His films are indeed suspiciously clone-like, but 'serious, probing'? By what standards? Well, says Yacowar, Manhattan can be compared with 'Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion, another classic analysis of the decay of western culture.' Oh, and 'like Kafka, Allen makes Jews of us all.' We might wonder just what manner of man this is whose films can unite Kafka and Renoir. Yacowar has his answers...
Actually, cold is not quite appropriate; queasy is better. There's something unsavory about the actions. All the mental and physical sickness, the frenetic activity, the bestial violence--in fluid drama it might contribute power, but in one that's disjointed and essentially static it's just lurid...