Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just plain mad, the slang harangue of Rockin' Robbie D is delivered in a keening, rapid-fire wail that is recognizable only to dogs, seismographs-and teenagers. Not that the kids understand it all; sometimes, when Mr. Hip Lip, as he is also called, starts "makin' with the shakin' " on Detroit's WCHB, the station runs a write-in contest called "What Did Robbie Say?" Nobody really knows, least of all Robbie. The important thing is that Rockin' Robbie and dozens more like him have given radio an advanced case of the screaming meemies...
...Chesham-type professionalism been recognized in Britain. Unlike their American counterparts, few big businesses in England can afford to employ full-time experts on mergers and acquisitions. Often the merger is a part-time endeavor of a few executives who lack the necessary expertise beyond the balance sheet to understand the long-range implications of the match. For this reason, Stacey estimates that between 1948 and 1960 about one-half of Britain's mergers turned sour. "Happily," says Stacey, "golf-club gossip and chance encounters between principals of businesses are no longer the recognized popular bases for mergers...
...committee can only be recommended for its dispassionate thoroughness. It is hard to understand why Mrs. Bunting is sticking so closely to the letter of the original request, rather than to its spirit. The Committee can be nothing but a help in working for more communication between students and administration. Mrs. Bunting should realize this. She should formally recognize the committee, and reappoint administration representatives. By not doing so she is wasting an opportunity to get in touch with students, and is thus showing once again that she does not take student opinion seriously, This kind of attitude can only...
...most fascinating pieces of music composed in this century (completed in 1943). Its explicit text by Catullus (847-54 B.C.) is a delightfully, powerfully pagan ode to the joys and heartbreaks of love and lust. Eugene Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra and the Temple University Choirs understand and communicate the wild spirit of the piece...
...cause of legalized abortion back, you could not have done better than that sentence: "Bureaucratic paper shuffling often holds up legal operations until the 24th week-producing live babies that sometimes cry for hours before dying." What a frightful picture. All the male lawmakers don't seem to understand that a pregnancy cannot be held in abeyance while an appeal, is made. Let the women write the laws...