Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...independence from Britain three years ago. Jim and Harry Hart, the dominant brothers, feared the cancellation of their land lease, and feared it even more after last month's election consolidated the power of Forbes Burnham, Guyana's black Prime Minister. The Hart boys began to ponder the incredible idea of a homemade secessionist coup, one that would utilize the greediness of the bordering country, Venezuela...
...high quality does not, of course, allow the Houghton to be complacent; but it does allow it breathing space in which to ponder a more serious question that confronts it: that of its role within the University and, implicitly, the community. Many people have recently proposed that Harvard make greater efforts to involve the people of Cambridge in its intellectual life and, specifically, that it make the resources of its libraries more accessible to the public...
...Executive Committee of the International Olympics Committee met to ponder possible effects of the disorders on the 1968 Olympic Games...
...critic is an avid lecher and blurb-confectioner, the other an intellectual exegete who would ponder the "human condition" in a pile of burning rubbish. Just such rubbish is put before both men in a fatuous mystery play. In a way, Hound is a miniaturized travesty of R. and G., since the two critics cannot grasp the play they are watching any better than R. and G. could fathom Hamlet. The critics become unintentionally involved in the action and are both shot to death. Stoppard is a ' word mimic and a born parodist. But parody is parasitic and needs...
...clerical experts in the field, and included medical doctors and sociologists. In June 1966, the commission submitted its final report to the Pope, and authoritative sources reported that 80% of the commission had favored a relaxation of the church's prohibition of artificial contraception. Nevertheless, Paul continued to ponder the issue. Word gradually spread that he had decided to veto the views of the commission majority. Last June, Vienna's Franziskus Cardinal König, who had been briefed on the Pope's decision, pleaded with Paul to reconsider. König argued that a reaffirmation...