Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First, a procedural question: who wrote this thing? Were there students on the committee that came up with the questions? It certainly doesn't seem so, because many of the questions are unanswerable simply because they are not relevant. The two questions that were suggested by the Undergraduate Council--on a student center and exams before Christmas--were important ones...
...warden is killed by poachers, but then a beautiful lion begins haunting the safari camp. The plot takes incredible turns, but Fabulist Ingalls (Mrs. Caliban), an American who has lived in London for 24 years, glides, with sly humor, into the fantastic so deftly that she makes events seem not only plausible but inevitable...
...since there is almost invariably one bid for sympathy. After giving Oscars to Henry Fonda and Paul Newman more for distinguished careers than for dubious performances in their nominated roles, and after honoring Marlee Matlin with the best of intentions for what was an adequate performance, John Huston would seem to be an irresistible choice. A posthumous award to a beloved director directing his daughter seems scrumptiously suited to the appetites of sentimental Academy members. But they passed up him and his movie and his daughter...
...reason Jackson has been able to survive scrutiny--a thought columnists seem loathe to acknowledge--is that he, unlike virtually any other Democrat now running, has a loyal and well-defined constituency. Historian Alan Brinkley noted in The New York Times at the time of the Hart scandal that his campaign was mortally wounded by the Donna Rice affair precisely because he lacked a constituency. Hart was trading on his front-runner status and nothing more. The same could be said of Joe Biden. For a candidate without a natural constituency, any damaging revelation can bring a campaign...
...deed of gift by which the Alumni Association transferred Memorial Hall to the Harvard Corporation in 1878 that no memorial should be put into it inconsistent with its purpose of commemorating not only the Union dead but all Harvard men who served in the Union forces. But it does seem that after the lapse of more than a century, this condition might be waived, either by the Alumni Association or by legal action, to permit the installation of a memorial elsewhere than in the transept to recognize that Harvard's dead on the Confederate side gave their lives...