Word: owed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems to me that you owe an apology for the heading and for the cartoon. They are not funny. (THE REV.) L.P. VAN SLYKE Nunda...
...that would use drama to teach students their Appalachian culture; and $650,000 was for Fisk University for a new program that would incorporate teaching techniques like "guerrilla theater." Berman said these elements of the three projects failed to meet the endowment's standards of quality. "We owe people the best of education," he explained. "It's a disservice to any kind of student to submit him to a low-grade curriculum because we don't think he's good enough to cope with a better...
Disillusioned as they may be with their elders, teen-agers owe much of their sexual freedom to parental affluence. More of them than ever before can now afford the privacy of living away from home, either while holding jobs or going to college. The proliferation of coed dorms has eased the problem of where to make love; though such dorms are not the scenes of the orgies that adults conjure up, neither are they cloisters. A phenomenon that seemed shocking when it first appeared in the West and Midwest in the 1960s, two-sex housing is now found...
...departure from Moscow, Brodsky's letter expressed bitterness at having to leave his country. Although his poetry has consistently been banned in Russia and he served 18 months of forced labor in 1964-65 as a "parasite," Brodsky expressed a measure of gratitude: "I owe everything I have in the world to Russia. Everything bad that I have suffered has been more than compensated for by the good, and I have never felt hurt by my homeland...
...classically divided: fantasia, prelude, the main body, called "Pure Love," and finale. The fantasia and prelude are simply unnecessary. They only serve as a platform for some keyboard exercises. "Pure Love" is English blues at its worst. The English do not play blues well, even though we owe its revival to them. Most successful English blues is parody, like Humble Pie's nine minute travesty "I Wonder," which succeeds totally because it's so obviously a travesty. "Pure Love" takes itself too seriously. ("I Am the Dance of Ages," has a nice beat, but its use of wind and thunder...