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...Department's request that Sioris be made welcome at Harvard have committed a grave offense against the University. Their affront to the faculty and students of the University, not to mention the people of Greece, can hardly be made up for by an apology, but this at least they owe...
...little more than a month, Edward Gierek is about to receive a decisive report card. When the party's 91-man Central Committee assembles, perhaps as early as this week, Gierek must persuade its members to support his plans for economic and political reforms. Since most members owe their jobs to Gierek's predecessor, the ousted Wladyslaw Gomulka, this may prove to be quite a challenge...
Truffaut treats this material neither as light comedy in the Lubitsch manner nor as domestic drama, but attempts to create a kind of compromise fantasyland somewhere in between. That he succeeds is a mixed blessing. In their own comic innocence, Truffaut's people owe much to the creations of William Saroyan, an author to whom Truffaut paid homage in Shoot the Piano Player. But in Saroyan there is still much pain. In Truffaut it is increasingly concealed behind a general air of slightly manic pixilation...
...accounting operation had been very poor," he said, "and we had a heavy debt load-from members not paying their bills. We feel that switching to the bank has improved our accounting process, and has also helped us financially, as the members now owe the bank, instead of the Coop, for their bills...
...owe somebody something here at Yale after my ego trip with 'Love Story,'" Segal explained. Surely, his recent notoriety has resulted primarily from that novel, a short, unimposing book about a Harvard jock-scholar and his Radcliffe sweetheart who dies...