Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...council will probably pass the resolution next week, but Harvard officials need not be very worried. The resolution will be a formal request, not a binding rule...
...September, Rosovsky passed the request on to the council, which has taken its own sweet time discussing the demand--thrashing out the proposal's problems' and potential with students from the ad hoc group and with interested professors through four consecutive weekly meetings...
...choice lay between asking the new group simply to study the request further or to establish a concentration...
...foreign diplomats are subject to this strange honorable house arrest. They are not allowed to go more than 200 yards or so from their compounds. Because the embassies are not permitted autos, an envoy who wants to make a call or shop at a recently opened "diplomatic store" must request a car from the Foreign Ministry. Predictably, there is little social life. Summed up one diplomat: "The most exciting thing in Phnom Penh was going to dinner with the North Koreans...
...slow-motion plan against us. Step by step. Already, our names could not appear in newspapers. My recordings were not played on the state radio." When he performed with Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, only Richter's name appeared in the next day's reviews. Rostropovich concerts were canceled everywhere. "I request engagements in other countries," says Slava, "and Ministry send telegrams saying, 'Rostropovich ill.' They cancel my television appearances. Why? They say, 'Oh, Rostropovich is not very talented. He is bad cellist.' Suddenly, I do not exist?like a miracle! Now in Belgrade people talking about human rights. But what kind...