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...trouble with these characters is that we cannot imagine any one of them at age 60. Even Godard's brand of efficient feminism makes for self-absorbed, lonely old women. Denise's bicycle, if it escapes the automobile, will outlast her men; Isabelle's detachment will outlive her looks. Finally we cannot accept the title, and look instead for evidence of the altruism gene. Who can say he has never received a moment of real tenderness? Godard gives us a few among strangers, none among friends...
...promise than on their past performance. Last year, for example, he appointed Bernard B. Winograd, 28, corporate treasurer. A determined Agee told TIME: "Our policy is, and will continue to be, to promote the most qualifed people." His further success at Bendix, however, may depend on whether he can outlast the water-cooler gossipers...
...probably put the bugs there in the first place. And the feisty old jurist, who originally planned to retire from the Supreme Court in 1969, vowed to stay on until "the last hound dog had stopped snapping at my heels." Sick and in pain, he did finally outlast Nixon. When he left the high court in 1975, he had served 36 years, longer than any other Justice in U.S. history...
...compounds are essential to such products as Pharmaceuticals, plastics,, insulation, textiles and food additives. But unlike many natural chemicals, most petrochemicals do not decay rapidly under the assault of such natural forces as bacteria, sun, wind and water. That puny plastic bottle once full of household bleach may well outlast the mighty pyramids...
Harvard University , one can safely predict, will outlast us all. Without a doubt, it will remain an institutional oddity: debates about social responsibility, the relationship with Cambridge, the quality of the undergraduate education and the role of sports seem destined to persist perhaps longer than construction on the Red Line...