Word: pelle
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...main objection, he told a dozen freshmen in the Union, was that the administration's drive for American energy independence is "just going pell-mell forward, without mentioning conservation...
...come to terms with reality which unfortunately characterizes a great deal of recent American foreign policy. Throughout the 14-year period, Castro repeatedly expressed his readiness to establish amicable relations with this country. And just last fall, the Cuban government conveyed to visiting Senators Jacob K. Javits and Claiborne Pell its anxiousness to achieve a detente with the United States...
...that, especially in the "casuals" and "Talk pieces" that appear in the front of the magazine, the writing shows a distinctive humor, low-key and urbane, that seems to float effortlessly above all that is encumbered and earth-bound. "How easy I have found it," Gill writes, "to rush pell-mell through the world, playing the clown when the spirit of darkness has moved me, and colliding with good times at every turn." It's as if he has lived his life in New Yorker style, a life with a few muted sorrows but on the whole transparent and unruffled...
...meantime, educators hope that they will get some relief in an amendment by Senators Buckley and Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island to clarify ambiguities in the law. The amendment will deny students access to parents' financial statements; some parents are just old-fashioned enough not to want to disclose the family's finances to their children. The Buckley-Pell clarifications will also guarantee the privacy of letters of recommendation and other confidential materials - but only those already in the files. Future recommenders will simply have to shape their letters with the knowledge that their subjects may read them...
Staff attorneys for the Children's Defense Fund--a group that lobbied for the Buckley law and has opposed Pell's attempts to amend it--said yesterday that "Wexler's draft" has "undercut" and "screwed over" the original student files law in an effort to "kowtow to places like Harvard...