Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Health committee members will also push for traffic lights at Mason, Garden, and Follen Streets...
...notice. If a building committee of a half-dozen active men were established, the Graduate School of Design would provide a continual source of new ideas and encouragement. Moreover the committee could work closely with the Cambridge Planning Board to improve several alum areas near Harvard and could push projects like moving the subway yards to North Cambridge. Certainly the extent of Harvard's property and of its construction program makes such a committee essential...
...Stanford. There he stayed for three years, a gregarious, wisecracking lion of campus parties, a lucid, articulate teacher of a course in Kant. In & out of class he plugged the Hutchins line so successfully that Stanford next fall is revamping its rigid curriculum to permit bright students to push ahead into advanced study. When Hutchins persuaded him to return to Chicago as vice president in charge of university development, Stanford students howled in protest. The Stanford Daily put out a special issue dedicated to him. The graduating class made him an honorary member...
...three hours of concert music a week. "We do some fine things," said Mr. Goldberg, "Not only Beethoven's Ninth, but his Fifth and Fourth!" He expressed a lukewarm desire to play more, but spent most of his time relating the hardships of the radio world, "You can't push any ads on a classical show, and places like Wally's (a local jazz emporium) don't want to advertise on it. You can't run classical in the afternoon because people want disk jockeys. At seven in the evening they want adventure shows." Mr. Goldberg finally broke down...
This, of course, is more or less a Gallic rehash of "Brief Encounter," a movie that was effective in its plain, believable, and studiously underplayed plot. "L'Affaire" on the other hand, relies on all sorts of accidents and coincidence to push along its story line, and is not believable at all. Both movies sell the same moral: adultery can be fun but there's no place like home. With a quick flick of its subtitles "L'Affaire" could just as easily prove the converse...