Word: occurred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems to me, as I indicated to you last year, that the next change in presidents of Harvard should occur fairly soon, preferably near the beginning of the fresh chapter rather than three years from now," Pusey said. "If this can be arranged, my successor will have an opportunity to help design and order the new developments of the era ahead as well as effect their fulfillment...
...uncommonly something like ten years) is required in the administration of a university between the undertaking of a major project and its achievement. In the light of these considerations it seems to me, as I indicated to you last year, that the next change in presidents of Harvard should occur fairly soon, preferably near the beginning of the fresh chapter rather than three years from now when I shall have reached the mandatory retirement age. If this can be arranged, my successor will have an opportunity to help design and order the new developments of the era ahead as well...
...without Adler's precise vision and formidable diction. They may be forthcoming. After a stretch as the New York Times film critic-a period she justifiably describes as "a year in the dark"-she resigned "to do occasional articles." It is to be hoped that the occasions will occur frequently. There is a vast no man's land between Walter Cronkite and Norman Mailer. Renata Adler is just the right woman to fill...
...Godard were not so inventive and terrifying. Others have explored decadence and the death of the Old World sensibility, but no one has related that death so graphically to the automobile. What better symbol for modern culture? As we calmly drive our cars on the highway, does it occur to us that our own life and death is almost completely out of our hands? That at any moment we might perish because somebody on the other side of the road is watching the sunset, or hits an oil-slick, or is just crazy? And if even Camus died that...
...byline at the breakfast table. And the words, so funny when read, just don't work when they come from comic book characters on stage. Sometimes, the playwright in Mr. Buchwald comes creeping out, but he soon crawls back in. Buchwald often hints that something is really going to occur between certain characters, that a situation is leading to a plot. There is such a moment when the ambassador's daughter seems as though she is falling in love with the prince, but that moment dissolves at a joke about seducing the prince...