Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is a vision which may prove unsatisfactory. Fairy Tale is a book of vignettes and strings of first impressions, and therefore Christian sits uneasily as a symbol of New York, and the work is not equipped to cover the sweep of a great city. For such broad subjects, Fairy Tale is a narrow perspective, but like its hero and his hometown, it gains a hearing by being brash and bizarre...
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. "We must require experts to prove their expertise when they testify at our public hearings before a nuclear plant is licensed and before it goes into operation. To some people, public participation means stopping the program. The fact is that we are going to have to use atomic power as our reserves of fossil fuels dwindle, and we may as well get used to it. We can't live in a Garden of Eden and still have a technological society...
...OPTIMISTS. Peter Sellers, with a wad of putty on his nose that makes him look like Cyrano with a bob, must prove to a couple of downcast London slum kids that life can be, if not exactly beautiful, at least a little magical. He and his little dog Bella take the kids out busking-singing and dancing and begging on street corners and for theater lines. This sort of activity has a certain ragtag vitality, and compares favorably with the glum life the kids lead at home. They are charmed, a condition that is not contagious...
...romantic and a Roman Catholic, Mary was a congenial subject for the author, who is all those things herself. Cromwell was certainly not beautiful, had no record of romantic interest, and was a scourge of Catholics and a regicide. Why Cromwell? Says Fraser: "I guess I wanted to prove I was more than just a pretty brain." There is no doubt she proves it. Her Cromwell is vast and conscientious. She has read every biography, pored through every broadside of the times, considered every malicious rumor, and records them all before rendering her own considered opinion. The result is sometimes...
Penn then began playing as if their scholarships depended on it--last week, a temporary decision was announced to continue high funding for Penn athletics, and this game was supposed to prove the value of the investment...