Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ground. The House, which approved further funding last year by 14 votes, is expected to do so again. The showdown will be in the Senate, where more money was rejected by an eleven-vote margin. Not at all certain that the Senate will repeat that opposition, Proxmire is urging states to ban SSTs of any nation from their airports. Five states are considering such legislation. Concedes Proxmire about the pro-SST assault on the Hill: "It's the kind of campaign I've seen pay off again and again in Congress...
...needs. He should do what he wants, not what he has to do. Moffett believes verbalthinking and self-expression are natural desires which a student will satisfy if he is given the opportunity to do so. They should be encouraged, not stifled by demands to classify and repeat what other people say, in the first four grades of school. Even if a child can successfully complete the assigned language exercises, his language ability is not enhanced nearly as much as it could be in making up a play or story...
...have recommended such a solution, only asking that a new, random lottery determine, once and for all, which Houses go coed. Since last year's preferential lottery-engineered by May in a stunning display of bureaucratic complexity-approached the arbitrary quality of random selection, it would seem absurd to repeat a process that would ultimately uproot some of the women who have begun to establish themselves in their Houses...
...retired classicist who lectured the group on the "tragic mistake" they were making. The pickets succeeded, in the end, for Sioris cancelled his visit to Widener, and to the Faculty Club. But they have not received assurance, and assurance must be given, that Harvard will never repeat this insult to freedom...
While Mailer is not one to repeat himself. there is much here that we have seen before. There are the ritual reports on his bowels, liver, and marriages; his preoccupation with the small town mind; the constant dualities of vision: the stylistic brilliance, the quick substitutions of abstract for concrete; the sweeping flights, within single phrases, from the commonplace to the sublime (Hemingway's brains are "scattered now in every atmosphere"); metaphors that reach out and grasp every aspect of common experience; and the quick observations that outgun entire works of lesser writers (as when Frank McGee is described...