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...shall construct a hypothetical case. Let us suppose that at the time of the Hungarian Revolt Khrushchev had paid a visit to Moscow U. Let us imagine that the students (who in fact were indignant, and who did protest) had succeeded in "physically confronting" Krushchev. Let us imagine that they piled him with embarassing questions and that they hooted indignantly at his answers. Would we have criticized them for discourtesy? Would we have criticized them for obstructing Krushchev's movements? Would we have criticized them for disturbing the dignity of a great academic institution...
...enough for Harvard and M.I.T. to loan their planning officers and architecture professors to Cambridge in advisory roles. Speed is essential and in this case speed means money. To hurry housing construction, both schools have several options: they could provide "seed money" to finance construction, that is, an initial investment from their endowments which would be pulled out as soon as outside investment had come; they could donate some of their widespread land holdings as construction sites or sell them at below market-level costs; they could even construct non-university housing themselves and donate it or sell it cheaply...
...campaign for O'Connor, realizing of course that a Democratic victory without his support would make O'Connor a competitor for party power while a victory with support -- including the help of Kennedy's upstate staff -- would put O'Connor in a subservient role at least until he could construct an Albany-based organization...
...very first paragraph gets under way ungrammatically with the statement that "there is a right way to use words and construct sentences, and many wrong ways." Later on, after having stated that most verbs ending in -ize are "nearly all unnecessary and ill-formed," the text pops up with trivializing, signalize, actualize. It qualifies the absolute: fairly certain, virtual unanimity, quasi-universal. It insists that he betted on a horse is proper, speaks of cookery books, permits in case of fire but not in case of emergency. According to Follett-or the committee-margarine takes a hard g, and clothes...
...never held public office," Reagan retorts. "But if we're going to base the election on that, consider that Brown's been in office eight years and he hasn't done much about our problems!" And he punches hard at the fact that "citizen-politicians" can construct the "Creative Society" that Reagan uses as his campaign theme. "Don't forget," he says, "there weren't any professional politicians when this country started...