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...John B. Hynes, former mayor of Boston (for ten years), who twice defeated Curley, brought the Prudential Center to Boston, created the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and laid the groundwork for many of the projects now underway in the Collins administration...
...while striking instrumental entrances proclaimed a self-conscious profundity, there was no groundwork of conventions whose variation might tell just what the profundity was about. The music did not demand the concentration essential to divining the deepest beauty in other romantics, say Bruckner or Wagner; its sound initially excited me because of its claim to deepness, but then left me unmoved because it never sketched out a subtle emotional message. When the announcer said that Morton Feldman's Piano (Three Hands) was "infinite personal experience," he parodied just that pretentiousness of style...
Last week's conference was the third of four regional gatherings at which lawyers of all nations are to lay the groundwork for a grand "summit" meeting of world law tentatively scheduled for New Delhi next year. Among other proposals of particular relevance to Africa, the Consensus of Lagos urged...
Aside from a one-year graduate course given by New York University, Radcliffe's is the only comprehensive introduction to publishing, and in addition to groundwork in proofreading, copy editing, and layout, the course enjoys an outstanding roster of lecturers: editors (Edward Weeks of The Atlantic Monthly), writers (John Updike), Presidents of films (Barney Ross of the recently notorious Grove Press), and Art Directors (Cipe Pinellas of Mademoiselle who enlarged upon the details of the Lampoon's recent forays there...
...represented. Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa did most of the talking. The participants agreed on their "unswerving loyalty'' to the U.N. They censured the arrest of Katanga's Moise Tshombe in the Congo, nuclear testing, South Africa's racial policies. They laid the groundwork for technical and economic cooperation, scheduled a second meeting in Lagos later this year. But as Houphouet-Boigny planned, the conference was primarily an initial, amiable stab at getting acquainted...