Word: developing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this, incident simply follows incident: his story is just one damn thing after another. Causation, results, growth, change--none of these exist in Viereck's dramatic world. And his ideas, bad as they are, do not develop from his characters and situations: rather, his play is a series of expositions of ideas, never embodied in dramatic form. The greatest sin in theatre is to be dull, and Viereck is rarely anything else...
...British Petroleum, turned to an articulate advocate of the hard sell. In as the company's managing director went John Emerson Harding Davies, 45, youngest man ever to hold the post. A World War II major who credits the British Army with "giving me an opportunity to develop initiative," ex-Accountant Davies likes to spend his time with salesmen in the field, argues that many decisions that used to consume management's time can now be taken by computers...
...moment, it seemed that the day's first news story might develop at Radcliffe, when Elvira R. Squirm '63 ran down the hall of her dormitory screaming, "Help! There's a man in my bed!" But it was a false alarm; Miss Squirm, whose eyes were watering from swallowing too much Listerine, had walked into someone else's room...
Perhaps if the University were to encourage the attendance and interest of local residents at the academic, political, and cultural events it sponsors, Cambridge people too might develop a real affection and need for Harvard...
...chief purpose of this book is to convince military strategists (amateur ones, that is) of the potential usefulness of arms control--to develop methods of avoiding unintended war, to decrease certain military (technical) causes of war, like the incentive to pre-emptive or accidental war, and even to minimize the scope and damage caused by wars that might occur...