Word: offere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...function of Black Film was perfectly clear: to reflect the attitudes, aspirations, and problems of Afro-Americans, and to offer suggestions for the resolution of black problems. The validity of the other differences mentioned--tone, rhythm et al--is open to question...
...Graduate School is the one summarized by the well-worn but convenient word "morale." A distressingly large number of graduate students find their experience at Harvard disappointing. They have little sense of belonging to a fellowship, and they keenly miss the enrichments and gratifications that consociation might offer. Their range of relationships with each other is, they believe, much too limited. But it also troubles them that their relationships to the faculty, their department, and the University are tenuous, ambiguous, and generally unsatisfactory. They had hoped that graduate student life would involve stimulating interchange, not only within the areas...
...DEBENTURES are IOUs used to pay for companies. Like bonds, which they resemble, the debentures offer a fixed rate of return in interest. Usually the principal is repayable 25 years later, in two installments. Under that arrangement, recipients of debentures qualify for the so-called installment-sale tax provisions. If they swap shares in a target company for the conglomerate's deben tures, they pay no capital-gains tax on the deal until they get their money back in 25 years. Debentures are doubly attractive because they are generally convertible into common stock at an above-the-market price...
Like many an autocratic schoolmarm, Miss Brodie is not in love with men, she is enamored of power. To her, Mussolini and his Fascisti offer humanity's best hope. She sends one girl packing to fight in Spain for the Falangists-where she is killed. Her favorite informant (Pamela Franklin) turns against her and squeals to the authorities. "Assassin!" shrieks Miss Brodie, and the echoing walls provide a bogus, melodramatic echo...
...Career oriented people such as George Lindsay, who want to be professional techies, the Loeb may not offer training, but it does offer a chance to make mistakes and correct them for the next show...