Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic integrity" of Negro students at Harvard. What I do say in those articles, and would reiterate, is that too many black students enter Harvard with academic deficiencies (perhaps 40%) and that this should be avoided by raising the median SAT verbal and math scores of black students nearer to the median for Harvard College. I also argue that a quota for blacks is defensible and the proportion of blacks in Harvard College be maintained...
...Debussy and Ravel simply seem to be beyond him. Yet one can never rule out any possibility with Solti-even his becoming a master of the tender brush stroke. The Beethoven represented by his new recording with the Chicago of the Ninth Symphony (London) is significantly deeper and technically nearer perfection than the Beethoven he recorded more than ten years ago with the Vienna Philharmonic. This week London issues his Parsifal. Serene, mystical, glowingly colored and, by the way, the slowest in stereo, it is a pantheonic accomplishment he could not have matched a decade...
...Canadian and Indonesian truce officials, thwarted by both sides as well as by their Hungarian and Polish colleagues, were hinting at quitting the ineffective International Commission of Control and Supervision-a move that would all but destroy the unit. For Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam, peace seemed no nearer at hand than it did a year...
Malik later set off another brisk diplomatic exchange when he noted that the Israelis felt "nearer than any other people to God." He added: "I am an atheist but I do not believe God would be so partial." Rapping the table with his pipe, the Israeli Ambassador, Yosef Tekoah, shouted: "I do not believe that the Security Council should be a forum for the kind of slander and abuses of any people's faith we heard just now from Ambassador Malik!" Tekoah then proceeded to bring up the Soviet Union's prewar pact with Nazi Germany, which drew...
...proposed parking facility, situated adjacent to the Turnpike and Storrow Drive, would compensate for the loss of off-street parking areas nearer the Square which are being converted into new commercial developments...