Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City Councillors insisted on knowing why Rudolph couldn't proceed faster on the installation of traffic signals. As Rudolph explained them his difficulties are twofold. First, he is overburdened with routine work. For example, he said, just several weeks ago, one of his new traffic patterns in Brattle Square had angered a local businessman so much that the Director had to make a special study of the Brattle area. And, then, he continued, during every snow-storm he is faced with the minor crisis of clearing Cambridge's streets and getting traffic moving. These excuses seemed weak...
Julian marries Miss Alice in Act III, upon which she and her entourage at once prepare to leave him. They call themselves "agents"; they are certainly worldlings; they may be Fate's Furies. Holding a mock trial and firing a mortal bullet into Julian's stomach, they proceed to teach him what Albee believes he knows. Man is alone. The universe is a void. Whatever illusion or symbolic replica of faith man invents to still his fears and help him accept the inevitability of his destiny may be called Tiny Alice...
...Tories let him proceed, and he closed down 121 branch lines-most of them in rural areas, where he aroused angry opposition. But the plan was too drastic for the Laborites, who had never warmed to Beeching. They fussed when he took over, noting that his $67,000 salary was more than twice that of the Prime Minister and of the heads of other nationalized industries...
Howard Zinn, associate professor of Government at B.U., who also signed the letter, said that the huge mandate given Johnson in the recent election should "make it clear that he can proceed without fear" in pushing the Civil Rights movement. There is a wide-spread apprehension that Johnson will ignore the Challenge in an effort to preserve peace in the Congressional ranks...
...matters sexual, according to Miss Sontag, Camp goes against the grain, cherishing either the androgynous, swoony girl-boys and boy-girls of pre-Raphaelite painting or the plangent supersexiness of Jayne Mansfield or Victor Mature. In art, Camp's exaggeration must proceed from passion and naiveté. "When something is just bad (rather than Camp)," she writes "it's often because the artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish. 'It's too much,' 'It's fantastic,' 'It's not to be believed,' are standard phrases...