Word: purport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...composition incomplete. Further criticism, conclusions, and choices for action must be taken up by the audience; discussion becomes praxis determined by the people. There is no recourse to cinema-verite pretensions of proof, to demonstrating factual unity of sound and image, since La Hora de los Hornos does not purport to be a chunk of reality, a perfection, an end in itself, but rather a beginning...
Boudin said yesterday that there have been instances when a letter containing a threat has been incorporated in an indictment under this statute. "But these letters do not contain a threat in the statutory sense, since they purport to be written by one conspirator to another," he noted...
...they will find the usual assortment of Harvard mugs, Harvard scarves, Harvard ties, ash frays, key rings, chairs, lamps, skivvies, garters, diapers, playing cards, glasses, pencils, cigarette lighters, and cocktail shakers. This year, there is also a large assortment of new Harvard books-books by undergraduates and alumni that purport to tell something about the Harvard and American Youth of today...
...they will find the usual assortment of Harvard mugs, Harvard scarves. Harvard ties, ash trays, key rings, chairs, lamps, skivvies, garters, diapers, playing cards, glasses, pencils, cigarette lighters, and cocktail shakers. This year, there is also a large assortment of new Harvard books-books by undergraduates and alumn that purport to tell something about the Harvard and American Youth of today...
...time of testing is here. Our challenge to GM is based on irrefutable evidence and is being made in a manner which the dominant institutions in this society purport to endorse. I do not see, therefore, how any responsible institution in this country can, in good conscience, vote against us. Nor, frankly, do I see how any responsible institution in this country can afford to vote against...