Word: expending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Newly-indoctrinated, oft-harried freshmen will always be subject to the advances of the entrepreneurs of HSA--Harvard Student Agencies. The Fuller Brushmen of Cambridge expend much energy trying to foist upon undergraduates class rings, their linen service and for those so inclined, bartending classes...
Kristol, it must be emphasized, is not here discussing the serious scholar, the so-called "expert." He is referring to the mass of individuals who gravitate around the universities and media and expend most of their energy promulgating ideas which they experience only at second hand. Kristol quotes Robert A. Nisbet, a shrewd observer of the academic scene, who has estimated that a majority of all academics in the universities in this country "have so profound a distaste for the classroom and for the pains of genuine scholarship or creative thought that they will seize upon anything... to exempt themselves...
...achieving authentic eroticism in such an embarassingly direct art as film is nothing to be sniffed at. And at a time when most enlightened filmmakers expend their energies on explicit violence, Bertolucci's attempt to explore the much more human warfare of sexuality is itself significant. The pre-opening reputation of The Last Tango, and the controversy which now surrounds it, should thus not be seen solely as the result of hucksterism...
PROFILE: Agitated. Proud. Opinionated. He has energy to expend. Displays excellent leadership qualities. His ability to articulate ideas will add immeasurably to the literature of self-identification for the B.U. football team...
JAPAN'S TRADE IMBALANCE: This is clearly a principal irritant to the U.S., which received $7.26 billion in Japanese goods last year, while exporting only $4.05 billion to Japan. "I am prepared to expend all my efforts to solve this problem. One of the major reasons for it was the recession Japan went through last year." This, along with a revaluation of the yen, slowed G.N.P. growth from an average 10% a year to 4.7% in 1971. "We favor a greater effort to export American goods, not only to Japan but elsewhere. There is an old samurai saying that...