Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calling the strike of the teachers a "vicious power grab," acting president of the college S. I. Hayakawa said, "I don't know how I am going to stop them from closing the school, but I am going to try...I am not going to accept it closed by anybody...
...Whitney Museum have an enviable reputation for spotting new art trends. But the Whitney's singular problem is that it is committed to catholicity, determined to recognize the new and yet to support the established, blaze trails and still find room for tradition. The result is invariably a grab-bag display where the latest avant-garde creations nestle alongside traditional bronze nudes. For the 1968 annual, devoted to sculpture, the confusion has been compounded by a $155,000 Ford Foundation grant that enabled five Whitney staffers to visit 30 cities and recruit a dozen-odd artists never before shown...
...Buckeye was fouled, but again missed the shot only to have a teammate grab the rebound and score, upping the margin to six and blunting Harvard's momentum...
...tease, it's a girl who's a tease, but hasn't got the goods to deliver. Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer fits very definitely into the latter category. In his attempt to salvage theatre from the sentimentality of his day, Goldsmith dipped enthusiastically into the grab bag of Restoration drama. Unfortunately, all his hand touched upon was an endless array of frenetic entrances and exits. Aside from a few minor characters, his players still must wander about with an air of frustrated gentility. All that excitement, but so little vigor--rather like a spastic with anemia...
Harrison was equally generous with his praise of Hardy. "Ernie can jump higher than anyone else on the team; nothing fires up the team more than seeing him go up to grab a rebound or block a shot," he said...