Word: predicters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monro's warning led many people to predict that the Faculty would do more than put the most deeply involved demonstrators on probation. That the Faculty opted for a moderate punishment is ample evidence that a concerted effort was made to understand the exacerbated felings of the anti-war student bloc at Harvard...
Faced with the problems of integrating what is now one million foreigners (two per cent of the population) into a social structure already in a state of transition, the Labor party has swung around a full 180 degrees on its former position. Experts predict that by the end of the century there will be 3 million non-white British citizens (or over four per cent of the population). This figure does not allow for any additional immigration, but takes into account the important fact that almost all the immigrant population is of child-bearing...
...getting better," Coach Lamar promises.. "It's tough for players from all over the country to work together under one system of plays, but we're beginning to play as a team." He declines to predict the outcome for the second half of the season. All three games--against Princeton, Brown, and Yale--promise to be battles; that much he foresees...
...Melodiya/ Angel). Prokofiev composed this music for Sergei Eisenstein's movie Ivan the Terrible in the early 1940s, but his means (oratorio-like) and aims (monumental) hardly allow it to be described as background music. Much of it is so impressive as to provide ammunition for those who predict that the best new music will be composed expressly to serve other arts. Yet the other arts can overwhelm-as sometimes in this case, when the narrator in Ivan (theatrically intoned in lyrical Russian by Aleksander Estrin) makes the work sound to non-Russian-speaking listeners rather like an Eastern...
...results may already be obvious. Throughout the sonnets the poet's feelings oppose his situation; he is always aspring either to a more enjoyable or a less unpleasant state. The sonneteer seems doomed to an unrewarded labor. Unable to predict his next reaction, confused about the painful progression of his feelings, trying even to be honest even about his dishonesty--"for poets are eigned to lie, and I / For you a liar am a thousand times." Perhaps his most significant lie is the most implicit: he assumes the continued intensity of his love for Lise, judges his victory...