Word: oft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several basic errors in conception and construction that the musical never overcomes. In essence, the Marx Brothers were absurdists, comic illogicians who disrupted routines, tipped the daily balance sheet of existence awry, and exploded surprises like firecrackers. By contrast, the musical is a routine Broadway blueprint of the oft-repeated show-biz saga. Here it all is-indigent beginnings, ineffectual father, indomitable, solicitous and insufferable stage mother, fleabag hotels, one-night stands, the big chance with the kingpin producer, a smash hit at vaudeville's old Valhalla, the Palace, and at the final fadeout, on to Hollywood and immortality...
...began crying. It threw me into a whole new psychic pattern. It became a commitment for life." He also became adept at a kind of psychological warfare with the dominant whites. He discovered that when black demonstrators broke into the national anthem, puzzled cops stopped and took oft their hats; when blacks knelt in prayer, no one attacked them...
...During all the discussion last year that led to the proposed merger of the two institutions-tentatively scheduled for July 1, 1970-Pusey said little beyond his oft-quoted statement that there could be no coeducational living without merger. But Mary I. Bunting. President of Radcliffe, said last night that "Pusey had always been a friend to Radcliffe," and that his statement last fall was actually "an effort to accelerate merger...
...airports from Athens to Paris, planes belonging to Israel's El Al and to other "vulnerable carriers," including the oft-plagued TWA, are escorted to and from runways by official vehicles. The aircraft are frequently parked on remote aprons to reduce airport damage in case of explosion. Security guards ride aboard some Swissair and Olympic flights, and El Al has judo-trained guards armed with Beretta pistols on every flight. Airports almost everywhere in Europe have stepped up surveillance in passenger terminals. Last week Swiss inspectors uncovered a shipment of 47 Czechoslovak-made submachine guns in the baggage aboard...