Word: nec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...edifying, perhaps, but hardly nec essary that it be literally honest...
...Madeleine Morton, owner of the best restaurant in Saigon, the Guillaume Tell, greeted her customers. "I am trying to go to Bridgeport, Con-nec-ticut," she announced. At 12:20 two black buses finally arrived and were quickly filled...
When he is resurrected in an epilogue, it is as if Miss Frame herself had wakened from the slightly mad dream of her own novel. The talk is of reality's slippery nature, and the implication is that the artist's reality is often a nec essary derangement. Frame fans may recall the doctor in Faces in the Water, who cancels his patient's lobotomy and confesses: "I want you to stay...
...When the California debate opened just after midnight. California Co-Chairman Willie Brown Jr. shouted: "Give me back my delegation!" Chants of "Give it back! Give it back!" were answered by cries of "No! No! No!" The brief outburst, one of the convention's few emotional displays, was hardly nec essary. It was the last gasp of the stop-McGovern forces. In the final tally, 1,618.28 votes favored giving McGovern back all of his 271 California delegates v. 1,238.22 against. With that, George McGovern's nomination was assured, even though the formal balloting was still two days away...
...course, Yale can't totally dispense with Mr. Segal; his lectures are the largest at Yale. With the current budget squeeze the bosses are counting heads. You can't afford to lose a guy who so dramatically increases your department's enrollment. Nec tecum nec sine te, as the man might have said. So, Yale offered Segal three years of something called a senior lectureship...