Word: summing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victors will gleefully set about tying together loose ends, looking ahead to more work of an official sort, or savoring the simple satisfaction of a job well done. And it is likely that the sum of individual estimations of importance will exceed the whole. There are those who shunned the limelight and gave advice and who will now wait patiently to receive the call in January for the high honor of public service. Others wrote the speeches and heard them delivered countless times, experiencing countless vicarious pleasures with each repeated utterance. Still others commanded the organizations in each important state...
...legislation leaves the foundation of a national health care system to the random career choice of thousands of medical students. Beginning next year, each student who needs financial aid but does not qualify for a school scholarship can contract with the federal government for yearly loans, paying the sum back after graduation in the form of primary care practice in the National Health Service Corps. Through these contracts, the government hopes to direct 50 per cent of all first year physicians into either general, family or pediatric medicine by 1980. Only if this goal is met will medical schools either...
...more important than the sum of money the Nobel Prize confers on its winners is the prestige that accompanies the laureate's wreath. So when ten Nobel prize-winners, including four from Harvard, last week accused President Ford of erroneously taking credit for the American sweep of this year's prizes, it was not surprising that their statement made national news...
...works were wittier and smoother, but nowhere did the chemistry match the sexiness of this first picture which was made by MGM in 1942. Hepburn found the script by two young writers and tricked the knish-like despot who ran the studio, Louis B. Mayer, into paying a huge sum for the rights by inferring that it was by the unfailingly successful team of writers Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. (They were under contract to another studio and, Hepburn suggested, couldn't sell a script under their own names.) Mayer bit and the screenplay by Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner...
Klemmer's saxophone, of course, dominates each song and his solos are superlative. But the effect of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and you're more conscious of an almost three-dimensional effect than of only the solos, only the melody. Barefoot Ballet envelops you and you stay wrapped...