Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This program is scarcely bold or innovative. Indeed, parts of it merely repeat pledges and exhortations that the President made earlier. Alan Greenspan, who was Gerald Ford's chief economic adviser, commented bitingly: "If it had been the first time I heard the speech, I would judge it exceptionally good-right in tone, right in balance, voicing the type of general philosophy that I support. The problem is that I have heard it all before...
...voice is somewhere between a snarl and a come-on; the often simple melodies build, repeat, undulate, suddenly press home. Reed constantly recalls old rock songs, phrases lifted from ancient hit parades, but his images evoke Celine masquerading as an all-night FM deejay...
...does not select students on the basis of their ability to manage a $1.4 billion endowment. Harvard chooses students who values the academic goals of morality, truth, and beauty. By teaching students how such goals are more important than profit and power, Harvard guarantees that its students will never repeat the criminal greed of U.S. corporations now in South Africa. Partisan agitation on the part of undergraduates is secondary to the achievement of a deeper understanding of ethics, science, and esthetics. And it is probably premature. --Susan Esser '79 The Student Polemical Society
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...President Sadat to come to Israel was something magnificent. But as a result of this euphoria, he expected that anything that he said or wished must be done. I told him seven weeks ago in Aswan, and I hope he will excuse me if I repeat something I told him there, "President Sadat, what you did by coming to Jerusalem I usually refer to as the equivalent of the act of the first man landing on the moon." He enjoyed this very much. But then I told him, "But Mr. President, the first man on the moon came back down...