Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washkansky, was a sprightly, funny, thorny man, furious at his helplessness and cheerfully willing to put his heart in Barnard's hands. The book captures both the spirit of this crotchety victim and the excitement of that extraordinary operation -even though the prose, at key moments, tends to overflow like a sliced-open artery...
Speaking to an overflow audience in Lowell Lecture Hall, Chomsky, recently returned from a visit to Laos and North Vietnam, said that the United States was trying to control Laos through the destruction and systematic demoralization of the population...
...from, or whether some get off free-as long as they get enough men. They do not fear that the supply will dry up. Indeed, one of the biggest problems the Army faces is devising institutionalized means to climinate men. They create artificial categories to get rid of the overflow. On the other hand, those who man the draft boards wince at the thought that some will escape their arbitrary tentacles. Immediately, reports flowed from state and local selective service that all would be drafted to meet the quotas. These dictates quickly quieted those who thought they had newfound freedom...
...meeting's co-chairmen-Carol R. Sternhell '71, managing editor of the CRIMSON, and Charles G. Gross '57, lecturer in Psychology-ran the meeting from Sanders Theatre, but overflow crowds also filled Memorial Hall and Lowell Lecture Hall. All three rooms were linked by sound equipment. The chairmen generally succeeded in keeping the heated meeting in order...
...flux between serious and fantastic themes, director Seltzer's first task was to condense and unify the action. The whole production ultimately flounders because he and his actors cannot fabricate a larger coherency out of this diffuse material. The net result is chaotic, although somewhere in all the dense overflow of rich color and sentiment, there were elements of genuine merit...