Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history embedded in some 3 million objects. A few years ago, such figures seemed intimidating to many New Yorkers. The very idea of an encyclopedic museum went against the radical grain; and there was much talk of decentralization. Fortunately this did not happen. Just as you do not get rid of the need for the British Museum reading room by multiplying local libraries, so the necessity for the Metropolitan remains: a place where a very large deposit of cultural evidence can be inspected and compared in depth at the best possible level of aesthetic quality. The role of such...
...Patty Hearst case fame) when Scott was athletic director at Oberlin. "In 1972, Scott wanted me to drop everything and come out to Oberlin as the basketball coach. He was fascinated by sports psychology and wanted a coach who could impart that type of thing. He wanted to get rid of those people teaching courses on ankle wrapping...
...efforts come none too soon. Says Howard Feldman, chief counsel of the subcommitee: "Unless we reform the program, conservatives, liberals, everyone is going to take a look at that half-billion-dollar default and say, 'Let's get rid of the whole goddam program!'' That would be a tragedy for needy and well-intentioned students-still the great majority-who fully intend to repay their loans, and for the society that needs their educated skills...
...more substance the better. Because Shaffer has Dysart overstate his case in places about the dullness of modern society. Dysart says that by getting rid of this obsessive passion in Alan, he will make the boy's life boring, as if his life could never be full of new passions (some perhaps just as psychotic). Shaffer also seems to make this assumption that when Dysart finally finds out what caused Alan's problems (as simple as these causes are), he will be cured, when that seems only to be the beginning. This explains Shaffer's retraction in the program: that...
...that this desire to see the boy different than what he can become--not just dull--that the dangers arise of wanting any child to be something. Dysart plays God as the others wanted to play God, offering Alan a bag of gimmicks that will guarantee he'll be rid of his nightmares and maybe even rid of his horrible memory...