Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grew into a major port, and the U.S. Navy as early as 1917 picked Norfolk as its chief East Coast base. But its mouth, from Cape Charles on the north to Cape Henry on the south, is 13 miles across, and until a few years ago it did not occur to anyone that it could be bridged. Getting from one side to the other meant a H-hour ferry ride or a roundabout inland route of some 100 miles...
...report grow out of a study of freshmen last fall. It points out that the average freshman uses parietal hours only once every two or three weeks, and that "Infractions are exceedingly rare, and those that occur are often unintentional...
Tearful Nights. For Rubinstein, the most satisfying aspect of his career is the constant opportunity for growth in his art. ("I cannot play something that is not always new to me.") In pursuit of variety, he will even try out new fingerings "that suddenly occur to me" in the midst of a concert. "It is dangerous, I admit," he says, "but that is the way music develops." Yet his playing is still notable for its certainty, its easy muscularity and sense of inevitability. In last week's tour d'art, Rubinstein lent exhilaration and romance to the weighty...
...kids be weaned from the I.T.A. alphabet to the one everybody else uses? Nothing to it, says the University of London's John Downing, the top I.T.A. researcher. "Automatic transference" seems to occur because I.T.A. children are meanwhile seeing regular spelling on everything from street signs to newspapers. This makes them all the prouder to switch to "grownup writing," says Downing. Average children do it in minutes after laying aside their I.T.A. books. Those "hopeless" seven-year-olds did it in two hours...
...when Tony's fiancee says tata, and Barrett asserts control of the house, the film gets into trouble. Crucial character changes begin to occur so abruptly that the audience feels cheated. The callow Tony emerges as an alcoholic, displaying a capacity for self-destruction scarcely hinted at before. And suddenly, chillingly, the two men have switched roles. "I couldn't get along without you," Tony whines. And his manservant snarls back: "Then go and get me a glass of brandy-don't just stand there, go and get it!" Another offbeat episode has Tony and Barrett locked...