Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...camera, depending on the shot. Given over to exercises, as in these scenes, Antonioni's tracking camera lacks moral force as one finds in Lang's films and Godard's, but refreshingly the control maintained robs the typical American highway sequence of its customary thrust and sense of car-tantamount-to-wild-per-sonal-liberation...
...small faculty of some 60 members and it does not make decisions unless there is a consensus, which is why it can talk for almost ten hours without coming to a decision (as it did last Tuesday). Disrupting a faculty meeting at the Law School can be tantamount to seizing University and Massachusetts Halls...
...designate as B-all grades 65-68 Previously this was a C grade. This was done on the strength of the argument that the Law School is a graduate school, and it is well known in graduate school that B-is a rock bottom grade and C is tantamount to failure. The Harvard Law School 65 is not really as bad as all that. Now the suggestion is made that since in undergraduate schools a B-is sufficient for graduating Cum Laude, the same should hold true at the Law School. The practical effect of this suggestion would be that...