Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dulleses are remembered somewhat grimly: the stern Foster in steel-rimmed glasses, cocking his chin against the Communist threat; Allen, urbane but swallowed by the anonymity of his institution; and Eleanor, out of sight altogether. Biographer Leonard Mosley shows them to be a brood who, for all their Republican orthodoxy, were capable of great spirit and flashes of color...
DEJA VU. Within two months Carter had repeated his inept handling of a Justice Department matter. Twice he lied at his press conference. Twice he was caught. Both times, he presented a somewhat different story from that of his attorney general. Why did the president who campaigned on a platform of an "open administration deceive the American people? He wanted to hasten the removal of Marston because he was a Republican U.S. attorney determined to clean up the Democratic machine of Philadelphia. Replacing a federal appointee of an opposing political party was nothing new--political patronage has existed and been...
...working on these programs, and the programs can be seen by other students in the Greenhouse Cafeteria, Science Center lobby, and Holyoke Center. Undergraduate producers can work free of charge since OIT funds it. But there are still kinks in this video opportunity. It is just beginning and therefore somewhat unstructured, it does not count for credit toward any particular major, and plans for placing monitors in the Houses have not yet been realized...
...novelty in that I'm somewhat a product of Harvard and I'm also somewhat of a painter," American artist Robert Motherwell said in a speech last night at the Carpenter Center...
...this is a bit of deceptive foreshadowing. Instead, Teach goes berserk, provoked by Bobby's apparent lies. He brains the poor kid with a lamp and then proceeds to trash the set in a fine display of uncontrolled rage. This moment of Brando-esque pique is genuinely frightening, but somewhat inexplicable. Just as suddenly as he began, Teach stops, becoming apologetic. With all his bravado dissipated, he becomes pitiful...but why? The motivations remain cloudy, and so the ending, which features a confused Donny cradling the slightly dented Bobby in a touching Pieta pose, is ultimately unsatisfying and vaguely weird...