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Word: sayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administration is short on new ideas, it should be able to use its experience to implement the ideas of its more forward looking students. What sort of changes come to Wellesley should not, as Miss Adams likes to say, depend entirely on the students...

Author: By Richard B. Markham, | Title: Blacks at Wellesley Discover Indifference Swallows Its Own Children | 12/19/1968 | See Source »

...other words, the minority of students who decided to sit-in order to pressure the Faculty both to adopt one kind of solution on ROTC and to hold open meetings, was precisely not in the situation of, say, the minority of industrial workers who had to organize strikes against companies that had effectively deprived their employees of any mode of redress other than coercion. It is because there existed orderly -- if slow and constricted -- procedures for change, which had demonstrated neither their impotence nor their indifference, that the sit-in is indefensible--not because the target happened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOFFMAN ON PAINE | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

...been published ten years ago, Alistair MacLean's thriller might have transferred effortlessly for a smaller budget to a smaller screen. The plot is not much different from, say, Samuel Fuller's low-budget submarine picture Hell And High Water, and even the magnificence of Cinerama can't conceal the thinness of the story. The Ice Station Zebra souvenir booklet plot synopsis, these usually confined to initial statement of the premise, manages to tell everything up to the last ten minutes without appearing expensive. The souvenir booklet also pretty much gives away who the villain is, which...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Ice Station Zebra | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

...wish there were more to say about films like these. A year and a half ago Hollywood's apparent but inconclusive degeneration could justify enough nervousness to take the time to carefully pull apart a God-awful film like Frankenheimer's Grand Prix; but these days it's harder to get mad and, as things stand, I guess Ice Station Zebra isn't all that bad. It has the potential for being a good picture, but hanging over it are the ghosts of rewrite, of producer Martin Ransohoff whittling away at anything individual, leaving a gutless synthetic: sure-fire product...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Ice Station Zebra | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

...Just relax," the nurse was saying. And the patient wanted to scream, "You whore, is that all you can say?" But instead, feeling her hand on his shoulder, he put his hand on hers, and relaxed...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Teeth | 12/18/1968 | See Source »

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