Word: occured
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general trends of unpopularity that tend to occur year after year have been turned upside down, "Bruce Collier, assistant to the dean of the Faculty, said yesterday...
McCarthy has yet to write stirring verse, similar to that inspired by Vietnam, about the 1976 campaign, and he said he doubts that he will. Events that spur the poet occur infrequently in one's lifetime, and in the case of Vietnam, McCarthy surely must see this failing of history as a blessing...
...choices: stick to the original and add an ending, or else use the fragmentary notes Fitzgerald left about the rest of his novel to flesh out its contours. He opted for the first, and more obvious, route. The result is an abrupt ending which telescopes events designed to occur months or years apart--Kathleen's departure and Stahr's loss of power--into a period of a few filmed minutes. The effect is more sudden than powerful, since any necessary connection between the two crises, a connection which Fitzgerald's notes hint at, is never even suggested in the movie...
...voices that are now raised to defend the dissidents of the East raised themselves [to defend] not only my rights but the rights of this country." Nonetheless, he added emotionally, "We do not hesitate in condemning with all our energy violations [of liberty and democracy] wherever they may occur, even when those responsible belong to parties that affirm socialist ideals. In the systems of socialist countries, what is missing is democracy...
...Fogg is loaning a drawing to another museum, the lab may veto the deal if the work is not "stable," Beale said. As an example, Beale describes what might occur if an unfixed pastel, with pigments unbounded to paper, was transported from the building. One smudge would destroy a priceless picture, he said...