Word: oft
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...There are these kinds of sudden bursts of activity and, sure, people are looking for some kind of specialist to say something," says Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center who is himself an oft-quoted economist...
Pundit Profundities: Oft-quoted Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe borrowed a line from another widely cited Harvard affiliate in an interview yesterday. Said Tribe, "Between rhetoric and reality falls a long, long shadow." He forgot to mention that it was T.S. Eliot '08 who first drew the analogy...
...Union's other problems. But if he cracks down, he will hearten the enemies, who are already making rich political capital out of the discrimination against Russians. The Soviet leader met with Baltic party and government officials last week to seek some compromise of their demands. This week's oft-postponed plenum may show if he has found a way to calm the potentially explosive ethnic hostilities threatening to shake his rule...
...dirty rat." Everybody knows that screen gangster James Cagney uttered these words in one of his myriad movies. Or did he? Apparently not, say the authors of They Never Said It, a recently published compendium of oft-quoted misquotes and misattributions...
Seen during the Canadian part of the current tour, Scotch Symphony, Balanchine's musings on La Sylphide, worked best with Yelena Pankova, 25, as the sylph. A springy dancer blessed with a high, light jump, she seemed to grasp the choreographer's oft repeated injunction: respond to the music and "don't think -- do" the steps. Senior ballerina Galina Mezentseva tried to make a romantic story out of this plotless work and as a result looked...