Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resolution gave the liberals their basic platform, and marked the Faculty's division into liberal and conservative camps. Although the bust precipitated the split, the caucuses focused on distinct differences in principle and tactics, Hoffmann says. "The conservatives seemed to us to be saying we have to defend authority even if authority was stupid. One conservative insisted on supporting Pusey even though he said to me, 'Pusey is like Louis XVI, except that Louis listened to his advisers.' But the liberals argued nothing good would come of unqualified support. When the president and administration make mistakes there is no reason...
...undermine moderate political forces there. The Common Market nations, which get 68% of their oil from the Middle East, gently tried to dissociate themselves from the treaty, fearing that open enthusiasm could make enemies among the Arab oil producers. Reported TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn: "There is a distinct lack of dancing in the streets here. Europeans don't want to be caught, along with Carter, on the Israeli-Egyptian end of the pole, with Arab oil on the other...
There are three budgets which directly affect undergraduates--room rent, board charges and tuition. They are distinct budgets, with distinct financial officers, and must each balance separately. Our tuition forms between 25-30 per cent of the total FAS income, and 73 per cent of the unrestricted income. Our room rent and board charges form between 80 and 90 per cent of those departments' total income...
Tacked to the wall of Associate Editor Burton Pines' office is an outsized map of the world, with each nation a distinct and striking hue. "Looking at a map like this one," says Pines, who occasionally glanced at it while writing his second straight cover story on the Israeli-Egyptian negotiations, "helps you take account of geopolitical realities when discussing U.S. foreign policy...
...lighting and the music immeasurably enhance the performance's emotional atmosphere, but the production escapes detachment and coldness chiefly because of uniformly excellent acting. Every actor crafts and sustains a character; even the bit parts are people with distinct--if annoying--personalities. Heitzi Epstein (Olga), Jenny Cornuelle (Masha) and Anne Clark (Irina) turn in carefully sustained and sensitive performances as the three sisters whose emotional foibles and frustrations are the play's heart. Clark as the youngest sister deftly moves from lighthearted young girl to pensive despairing woman. In one scene she darts across the stage, childishly reveling...