Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the last of legal maneuvers exhausted in a seven-year battle against court-ordered school busing, officials in Columbus last week set about transporting some 35,000 pupils newly reassigned to different schools. The whole community mobilized to make the operation a great success. On the first day of school Mayor Tom Moody was able to announce: "We may not like what's happening, but we're going to work hard...
...past: Oklahoma!, The Most Happy Fella, West Side Story, My Fair Lady and Camelot. The musical version of Peter Pan, which first played on Broadway in 1954, does not belong in that exalted company. But it is a rare treat nonetheless, and this stylish, spirited revival ought to set a standard for all those that follow...
...Kosinski's characters explore their own souls, always reaching for limits. Fabian even visits hospitals where he knows no patient, forcing himself to meet the in curable, to witness the most vulnerable lives. The results are never less than compelling, but they are never more than set pieces...
Edwards said it was not his organization's intention to be "a divisive force in the Democratic party." He added, "We are simply responding to a set of circumstances that we find to be a fact today--that the incumbent President has not rallied the country around his administration...
...early season races went as they usually do for both squads--easily--the only real surprise coming when the Crimson stomped everyone in the San Diego Crew Classic. They went on to dispatch other opponents with surprising ease. Brown went first, then Princeton and MIT, where Harvard set a record for its 2000-meter Charles River course...