Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These thoughts were idealistic but politically naive. Limited both in knowledge and experience, they lacked the perspective to weigh the radical theories they absorbed. "The men of the M.F.A. view the world through a narrow spectrum of revolutionary struggle," notes a veteran Western diplomat in Lisbon. "Many of them are very emotional. It is not uncommon to see tears form as they talk about excesses of the great landholding families...
Harvard should not, however, be willing to give unlimited amounts of money to the Kennedy Library Corporation to meet its demands for financing if the site is in Cambridge. Instead it should weigh the value of the archives against the other priorities of running an educational institution and establish a reasonable limit to the money it is willing to pay for the presence in Cambridge of the Kennedy archives...
Riesman acknowledges throughout his essay that the endeavor is an impressionistic one, inspired and molded by his own emotional and intellectual commitment to Harvard's educational undertaking. His experiences here span almost half a century, and those experiences--both undergraduate and professional--weigh heavily on his analysis of the importance and permanence of the upheavals that overtook Harvard during the second half of the 1960s. Riesman evidently possesses a sincere and abiding affection for the university where he matured and spent a good part of his working life, and the problem he sets for himself in his essay...
Here, a French gunrunner (Michel Piccoli) and a British officer (Michael York) dash about North Africa during the early days of World War II, trying to avoid the Germans and get back to safety. Our boys do fairly well for themselves, but the stresses of escape and pursuit weigh heavily. "Let's surrender," suggests the Englishman after a particularly grueling day. "Why?" asks his French ally. "Because,' says the Englishman with invincible and poignant common sense, "I'm hungry...
...Slive, who has worked up a sweat this term trying to get his Fine Arts 13 students to take a look at art, launches into an explanation of his dual role as a teacher-museum director. "Our job is to teach the student to assess, judge, appraise and weigh works of art," he says. To this end, according to Slive, the Fogg is unique...