Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invitations he has received or in any way project himself as the front runner. That path is fraught with hazards. For a Kennedy it would be especially perilous, since the magic of the name arouses visceral resentment as well as admiration. Better to cool it in the Senate and prove his capacity for leadership by fighting for legislation like his national health-insurance bill. The fact that Congress remains in the hands of Democrats will provide him with a platform, and if a presidential veto blocks a measure that he sponsors, so much the better for projecting the Senator...
Simon a personal appearance will probably prove most rewarding for those who have not yet heard his records. People who enjoy a distinctly original and eclectic display of musical imagination will find him a delight. Those who enjoy him live, however, will rejoice far more in either of his albums. What John Simon says should not only be heard, it should be listened to again and again...
Harvard hockey players will get their chance to prove to themselves, their fans and the world that they can win a world championship when they meet the world champion Czechoslovakian national hockey team in the Boston Arena, January...
...understand Nabokov's peculiar conceit about time: he refuses to believe in the future or in a "flow" from moment to moment. We can sense the present and picture the past, but we can never prove the future. It is "but a figure of speech, a specter of thought." Some things are more likely to happen than others, to be sure, but none are certain. So the world of Transparent Things is revealed entirely in the present, but a present which is transparent to the past. The narrating guide instructs us how to approach this new mode of being: "When...
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE Democratic Convention, George McGovern believed that he would be elected President because he was an honest and moral man who had been right on Vietnam since the beginning and would prove himself right on most other issues as the campaign wore...