Word: nay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Extraordinarily quick, nay, incomprehensible cutting, imparting an abstract quality to the violence -- a terrible beauty, as the impressionable might put it. It also implies that beneath the director's wolfish exterior there lurks a sheepish artist as well as an existential philosopher eager to prove that morality is a sometime thing, determined by a trigger finger's itch...
...crowd gasped and leaned forward in unison. A few seconds later, Sanford changed his vote to "nay." Republican Alan K. Simpson predictably provided the necessary, 34th vote to support the President...
...Faculty meeting yesterday, six people spoke in favor of the new body, and no one spoke in opposition. After the vote, in which not a single "nay" was heard, President Bok said, "I would think this was some routine correction to the minutes...
Nite Club Confidentialis a small, buoyant musical that proudly, nay, triumphantly takes its place at the breaking crest of the retroculture. It is a two-hour-long tribute to a vanished time that may never have existed, packed with period songs and pseudo-period original music, as well as more Fifties inconography than you can shake a De Soto tail...
However, Bok appoints the deans and has a yea or nay on tenure decisions after the faculty has voted -- powers that provide him with some leverage. In fact, tenure is notoriously tough to win at Harvard, with the result that many promising untenured faculty members migrate out. Last year, for example, Bok vetoed tenure for Sociologist Paul Starr, whose 1982 book The Social Transformation of American Medicine had won a Pulitzer. The apparent reason: Starr was judged to be weak in the quantifiable data research deemed appropriate for a Harvard scholar. He is now tenured at Princeton's Institute...