Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Action" resolutions, asking companies to take specific steps to further racial progress in South Africa, "seem to us to be relatively ineffective," and Harvard should devote its time and money to "shareholder resolutions that are likely to be effective," the report added...
...hockey and basketball teams, despite the influx of talented freshmen, seem destined to join their football and soccer counterparts in the annals of lousy sports seasons at Harvard. But maybe we can build a dynasty on the fine performances of the Eastern champion ping-pong team...
...committee has other choices, and most of them seem to follow the traditional pattern. Last year saloon-keeper and comic Rodney Dangerfield spoke at Class Day, and this year's committee has a slew of comedians and other entertainment figures in mind if first choice Trudeau--a Yalie--declines to show...
...prices seem cheap to foreigners -first-class double rooms can go for $120 in London, $180 in Paris and $123 in Tokyo-but they are fast catching up. The most spartan single at the Beverly Wilshire has risen from less than $50 three years ago to $70 now, and doubles run as high as $135. The New York Hilton has just lifted its corporate rate for special repeat customers from $56 to $64 plus taxes for a single room; ordinary customers pay as much as $76, up $6 from last year, for a single and $92 for a double...
...civilized fop, contrasts perfectly with the well-weathered figures of the Aborigines, who bring a note of intensity to the screen, a doomed majesty from another time. When the Aborigines arrive at Chamberlain's house for dinner, they are beautifully out of place. Dressed in ill-fitting suits, they seem to be a part of Sydney's white world, but as they quietly eye the Steuban Glass, the Merimekko prints and the ancient carved stones--which are now nothing more than sophisticated living-room knick-knacks--one can see the gulf between Australia's past and the clean fragile work...