Word: taking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Take, for example, one unusual item on the expense side of this year's budget. The Faculty is paying the Kennedy School of Government $250,000 over three years to buy out the K-School's half of the library in Littauer. The K-School shared the library with the Economics and Government Departments until it moved to its new building last year...
...apparently Ernest May, last year's History chairman, has lost his abacus: he allowed four tenured American History professors to take leaves this fall, leaving American History concentrators with three half-courses to choose from...
Bowersock said professors most often take short-term leaves without permission during reading period...
...wiggled toward me, a wanton nymph with moist and parted mouth, and now bending down over my bare belly, crooning her glorious obscenities, prepared to take between those lips unkissed by my own the bare-rigid stalk of my passion...
...purists this approach is sheer heresy--they remember Wagner's demand that his works be called "music-dramas." But most scoff at that today, and take the music much more seriously than the drama. Sellars does the opposite, and compensates for the loss in musical clarity with wonderfully adroit stagecraft. Sometimes it descends to the level of slapstick pot-shots at Wagner's Nibelungs, Gibichungs, forest-birds and bears, but at least as often it sensibly comments on the eternal production problems of the Ring...