Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these points seem raised to distract the reader from the real question, the role and behavior of the conference organizers. On some campuses, it is true, organizers involved student governments in planning stages: my point, however, remains: that they did not involve the student bodies as a whole nor did they successfully tap into the active political movements on most campuses. At Harvard, the student body neither knew nor cared in large part about the conference, and the assembly was only peripherally involved. The Harvard organizations involved in the conference were involved only to the extent that individuals working...
...does so with a brilliance in staging that brings out Chekhov's geometry and starkly, pictorially dramatizes the characters' relationship to each other. The operatic staging also serves to divorce the characters from the world outside the Prozorov mansion, emphasizing their isolation. Their grand gestures and melodramatic speeches seem absurd and meaningless, as observed from a distant height...
...their own, perhaps to refuse to deal in the spot market with OPEC countries that will not honor their legally binding contracts. Said Clifton Garvin Jr., chairman of Exxon: "It is our belief that we should not buy oil at present high spot market prices." Others do not seem so confident. Last week Royal Dutch/Shell, a major customer of Iranian crude before the ouster of the Shah, was back in the loading queue for a new supertanker cargo at an undisclosed price...
...companies seem, destined to reap an absolute embarrassment of riches. According to projections by Wall Street's Paine Webber Inc., Ashland Oil, the nation's largest independent refiner, will see first-quarter profits leap by 517% over last year's earnings; one reason is the deals that the firm has been rushing to slap together during the crisis. Last week Ashland eagerly paid an exorbitant price, about $19.50 per bbl. for 300,000 tons of Iranian crude, even though the company's inventories are all but overflowing. Ashland executives had no firm idea of what...
...incongruous and even adverse situations that seem to support happiness may only confirm the insight ventured by turn-of-the-century Psychologist William James. "Life and its negation," wrote James, "are beaten up inextricably together. The two are equally essential facts of existence and all natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction." One broad contradiction that emerges from the happiness surveys is that, in spite of all the reports of the emptiness of modern life, relatively few people consider themselves very unhappy. On the contrary, an overwhelming majority of Americans (60% in one survey, 70% in another...