Word: summed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most recently published poem netted me the princely sum...
...their individualistic desire to strike out and forge independent identities. Patterson thus makes the daring intellectual move of taking on all the various and sundry historical forms of what David Reisman once called "groupism" as targets of his assault on ethnicity. Beginning with this premise, he goes on to sum up and criticize with remarkable incisiveness the broad range of forms that this pull toward group identification has taken in different societies and historical periods...
Surely there are few moviegoers who have not encountered The Lacemaker's kind of misty tragedy at one tune or another, but the film's total impact easily exceeds the sum of its familiar parts. Armed with compassion, tough intelligence and a first-rate cast, Director Claude Goretta (The Wonderful Crook) has performed the rare alchemic stunt of converting a genre picture into art: though The Lacemaker has all the trappings of conventional romantic movies, its deepest?and most upsetting?concerns are purely...
...these arguments do not even consider the enormous cost involved. With a price tag of $30-$40 billion, the MX would be the most expensive U.S. strategic weapons system ever. For the same caust we could produce literally thousands of cruise missiles; for slightly more than half that sum we could manufacture 13 trident submarines equipped with over 300 ballistic missiles...
...Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) voted at its annual budget meeting two weeks ago to give an organization called the Radcliffe Lesbians the sum of $375 as part of RUS's usual budgetary grants to groups like the women's center and the Association of Black Radcliffe Women. The lesbian group has been in existence two years, but has just recently ended its its previous position as a women's center sponsored study group. This is the first year the group has asked for funding...