Word: solidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past, there has been little chance for personal contact with the faculty," the audit states, but the HPC thinks the tutorial will eliminate this problem. And the new course curriculum will strengthen middle level offerings, "giving a more solid, unspecialized background in the field...
...American" novel that the reviewer wishes Malamud had written. The book is judged in terms of what it is not, and therefore is found to have "missed." There is nothing more contemporary than Malamud's theme; that of identity. Within the "innocent-guilty" framework is embedded the hard, solid nut of Yakov's stubbornness: I am what I know is true. Malamud speaks for contemporary Americans as well as for one Russian Jew. Man's inner quantum soul is reflected here...
Dirksen knew perfectly well, of course, that a solid score of those Democrats are Southern segregationists, hence that no civil rights bill stands a chance without G.O.P. support. All the same, Majority Leader Mansfield, for one, refused to make Dirksen the scapegoat. He reasoned that support for the bill had been eroded by the "rioting, marches, shootings and inflammatory statements which have characterized this simmering summer." He indicted, in particular, the evangelists of black power, "those who, in the name of racial equality or perhaps more accurately in the name of a new racial superiority, have not advocated further civil...
...interesting event was to say that it was a most interesting event. The Macmillan autobiography may seem stuffy, obliged as he is to outline the magnificent contours of a great world he never made, but which certainly made him. The principles of manufacture were sound, the workmanship solid. The figure that emerges from this is surprisingly sympathetic; a decent and far from humorless man who was both brave and honorable...
...harriers take on Columbia and Penn at Van Cortlandt Park. And although host Columbia should cop first and second places, the Crimson's main competition will come from Thompson, Schippelbaine, Kelso & Co. -- members of Penn's strong and solid squad...