Word: prior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negotiators at week's end, Henry Cabot Lodge could make the optimistic announcement that, despite initial criticism, the other side gave "every indication" of willingness to bargain on Washington's proposals. In a still more heartening move, North Vietnamese negotiators agreed to meet secretly with the U.S. prior to this week's session. At the very least, when faced off against the Hanoi-National Liberation Front's ten-point plan presented the week before, Nixon's proposals define a workable middle ground and provide both sides with their first solid basis for negotiations...
...island (romanticism). He recovers, is freed, and returns home to his family and country home (lyrical Griffith-evoking classicism). American classicism as we know it is reserved for the ending and two early scenes in Mudd's home, in order to create a sense of harmony and domestic tranquillity prior to his imprisonment. The rest of the film is quite different, including also a stylistic foreshadowing of detached neo-realism (the collapse of the first doctor), also of modern optical effects (the focus-pulling from dead Lincoln's face to the texture of the veil placed over it). Ford...
Both the level of the pun and the mention of the Eliot Lounge proved disastrous. The victory on Saturday, and the prior evening's celebration, termed "foul and dubious" by a Crimson middle-distance man, had prepared the squad for something neither the Club, the awards, nor the Friends of Harvard Track could provide...
Although the Crimson finished with a 9-2 record in the NCAA District standings, John J. Connelly, coach of Northeastern and head of the selection committee for the District playoffs, announced last night that a prior NCAA ruling prevents Harvard from being considered for an invitation to the playoffs. Since only one EIBL team may be entered in the NCAA competition, the league champion, either Dartmouth or Cornell, will be selected...
...producer of children's films, Joseph Strick, 45, is less skilled than Radnitz. His prior movies have been fare that kids could scarcely see, much less comprehend: Ulysses, The Balcony, The Savage Eye. In Ring of Bright Water, he reverses himself and locks out the adults with a tale that makes The Three Bears seem Byzantine...