Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weekly What, the television volume. My prejudices in talking furniture will become clear over time, but I'll categorize a couple of my prejudices at the outset. First off, erudite t.v. strikes me as a contradiction in terms, and for that reason, WGBH rarely gets my vote. I prefer the hyperdramatic, particularly those wonderful best seller series with tons and tons of power struggles, crises, sex and the like. The standard fare--situation "comedies" and "dramatic" series--leaves me cold...
...disagree with your labeling the San Antonio News an ignoble fish wrapper. The News would probably make a good bird-cage liner or emergency umbrella. I prefer to confine my reading to the San Antonio Light and, of course, TIME...
...most who shivered in long Johns or waited up to six hours for tow trucks to pull their cars out of snowbanks, the challenge of the extraordinary winter was something they would prefer to pass up. The weather punished sections of the nation in varied ways, most of them harsh and costly. A tour of the icy American horizon, region by region...
...continued and conspicuous absence of Hua and his twelve-man Politburo, who did not attend the week-long ceremonies honoring Chou. Few analysts thought Hua had completely lost his grip, but many China watchers viewed his nonappearance as further evidence of a raging power struggle. Hua would certainly prefer to see the premiership go to an ally or a subordinate with less ambition than Teng, like Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien. If Teng succeeds in becoming Premier, Hua would probably remain as Chairman. But in the face of Teng's determination and drive, Hua might conceivably be reduced...
Hawes has bigger ideas for Mem Hall, built in the 1890s to commemorate Harvard students and alumni killed in the Civil War. Although he said the task force's recommendation to transform the building into a coffee house or an old style beer hall has merit, he would prefer to see the building converted into a campus center for the arts...