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...traditional university. I would propose that the new university be a three-year college with its freshman class drawn from the freshman classes of other universities. With this kind of policy, the tables will turn: Harvard and M.I.T. will have to implement large-scale change just to retain their smartest freshmen...
...move will take place when the Central Committee meets in mid-April. If the ultraconservatives have sufficient strength by that time, they may try to expel Dubček permanently from party membership. But even if they fail, it is difficult to believe that Dubček can long retain his diplomatic post in Ankara...
...Hollywood studios offered me a lot of money for Boys, " Crowley said, but he took a smaller offer from Cinema Center, so that he could retain artistic control and the original off-Broadway cast, all unknowns. "One studio," he explained, "wanted to use old stars in 'these great little cameo parts' to rev up their careers. Paramount kept talking about a title song-they wanted to sell the picture with a hit record...
...give substance to what is basically situation comedy or tragedy. In a sense Horovitz may be writing plays backwards. Instead of prefabricating beginning, middle, and end for the actors, he ought to let them improvise on his situations, go over the routines and situations many times, and then retain in a fixed play whatever worked out best. They were kept from getting truly involved in the play because the situations were difficult to overcome and the ending a tremendous millstone (albeit funny) around the plot's neck...
Because the translators chose to retain "thee" and "thou" forms in addressing God, many of the Psalms are studded with "thees," "thous," "hasts," and "didsts." Still, if the translators have lost some poetry, they have gained some as well. Where traditional prose passages in such books as Genesis were found to have a certain rhythm, they are now set as verse...