Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After some 65 years of Jewish immigration, greatly accelerated during the era of Nazi persecution, the United Nations General Assembly votes to abolish the 1920 British mandate and partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. The Arabs reject the plan, and civil strife worsens...
...script is a Hasty Pudding reject and it reeks of it. Unfortunately, shows that work at the Pudding don't always work elsewhere. Without the big stage and the real half-men, half-women, Oh No, No Net! limps along toward its less-than-satisfying finale. Director Marisa Silver and choreographer Linda Hammett have conspired to crowd as much on the tiny stage as is possible--and more. The chorus line is massive; maybe just right to command attention on the Holyoke St. stage, but needlessly cumbersome at Agassiz. The director was in a bind--she needed the extra voice...
...short time I've been here, I've learned a couple of things besides how to play squash. I've learned that this school, while having some damn fine teachers, tends disturbingly often to neglect or reject them. The latest Harvard teacher to whom this has happened is Diana Thomson, currently at the center of the flap over dropping fiction writing from Harvard's expository writing program...
Mundy used peremptory challenges to reject 12 of the 13, or 92 per cent, of the black jurors whom the trial judge found fit to serve. He eliminated 34 per cent of the white jurors on challenges...
...court's decision establishes an important precedent in state law formerly, there were no restrictions on attorneys' right to reject potential jurors because of their race...