Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only hope and trust--and I do--that the University has a conscience bigger than many around here give it credit for. The way to evoke change--even if it is glacial in pace--is not through violence and building takeovers, not through continuously putting the University on the defensive...
...concern has entered Harvard's calculus. Its authorities must believe that freedom of association is a good. They clearly believe that equal opportunity is a good. To impose membership rules on the Final Clubs is to sacrifice the former. Not to impose them is to sacrifice the latter. But (pace Clubbies) the worth of the opportunity lost to those discriminated against doesn't come close to outweighing the value--to all who would be free--of letting the Clubs do as they will...
Just because Penn and Princeton topped Harvard in blocks and steals, however, doesn't mean that the Crimson is deficient in those categories. In fact, this year's cagers are far ahead of last season's pace...
...trial of four armed-robbery suspects was under way inside the columned, gray stone courthouse in the city of Nantes. Suddenly the measured pace of the legal proceedings was shattered as a man burst into the courtroom firing shots into the air and brandishing a hand grenade. Judge, jury, lawyers and a roomful of spectators dove for cover under tables and desks. The intruder, later identified as Abdelkarim Khalki, 33, quickly stripped five court officers of their .357 Magnum pistols and turned them over to two of the defendants. The 34 people in the courtroom had become prisoners...
What the entire cast (including a slyly insinuating Klaus Maria Brandauer as Bror) helps to realize, what Pollack has captured in simple, forceful imagery and in the perfect pace of his editing, is something one dared not hope to find in this movie. It is Dinesen's remarkable rhythm. She never held a note too long. Africa had sung too many songs to her in a voice she knew was beginning to die. She had to get down on paper as many of them as she could, and do it without losing the haunting beat that had carried these sounds...