Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Barry's first Broadway musical score (after Goldfinger, Midnight Cowboy and lots of other movies) includes several fine numbers, including a very charming ballad about Humbert's past, "In the Broken Promise Land of Fifteen." "How Far Is It To The Next Town" is a good song, but its refrain is hardly an adequate substitute for the constant car travel between motels in the book and movie. The mindless opening number, "Going, Going, Gone," sounds like Top 40 material...
...that strike, which had two sides; on the one hand, there is a lot more radical sentiment on campus. Many more people think that the system stinks. But, on the other hand, many of these people see no real way of changing it. The liberal politician's refrain "wait till next year!" is being met more and more with the realization that what we are being asked to wait for is to be "channeled into responsible processes" (McCarthy's avowed intention), that is, sold...
...South House Committee wishes to express its very strong disapproval of the housing regulations expressed in the non-merger. We request that the administration refrain from hastily applying these regulations. We also ask the administration to make a clear statement of these regulations so that students may study them and express their opinions...
...CRIMSON of that spring referred to Bunting's "growing reputation as an autocrat," and ran editorials strongly denouncing her. One of them said, "There is evidence, in fact, to suggest that Mrs. Bunting has consistently disregarded widespread student opposition to her pet project... Mrs. Bunting's repeated refrain at Radcliffe Government Association meetings, that Radcliffe is run both by its students and administrators, has always been a deception. And always will...
...national vote unless some catastrophe strikes Italy, and the Communists claim they do not want that to happen. They have abandoned their old slogan, "Tanto peggio, tanto meglio" (The worse it is, the better it is for us), and often cooperate to help pass important bills (or at least refrain from sabotaging them). Deputy-Secretary Enrico Berlinguer, 48, Longo's designated successor, hopes to make the Communist Party the nucleus of a "new majority" of the left that would include left-wing Christian Democrats and Socialists...