Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last Sunday afternoon Seeger sang in Boston to an audience composed mainly of school children. Needless to say, he went through his familiar introductions; but although this might have been the ten thousandth time that he was explaining how "On Top of Old Smoky" was recorded in the Ozarks in the '30's, he still managed to instill in the youngsters his dedication to the idea that folk music is folk music...
...insist that the US give up its conception of China and the USSR as aggressors--and even Dulles did not have such a naive view of our opponents. Instead, a full, complex, and trustworthy analysis of these nations must be produced, such that we can with confidence desist from needless threatening counter-moves...
...with more theater in them than truth, of Freud pinch-hitting for flesh and blood, of amusing little leitmotivs in place of incisive motivations. There is not much organic development, and at times scenes dribble on or go flat. Again, there is even here too much sex, or needless talk about it, at times on the commercial rather than compulsive side. And there is too strained a dual happy ending, a sense of Williams propelling himself too far in the opposite direction, trading claws for Santa Claus. Moderating his pessimism could greatly bulwark his power; but virtually shedding...
Girls have complained that these academic permissions impose needless restrictions and cause confusion as to whether one is being "social" or "academic." For example, a freshman with academic permission cannot leave the library after 10 p.m. for coffee at near by Agassis...
Brown was stalled on three plays, and Barry punted from his own 28. Hatch acted as though he were going to catch the ball, until the last split second, when he nobly deferred to his cohort, Armstrong, Needless to say, Armstrong was somewhat taken aback, and the ball bounced between the two men. Hatch gave chase, and succeeded in touching the ball, after which Jim Thompson recovered for Brown on the Harvard...