Word: aback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...authentic passion on every page, even the overwritten ones where the author seems to have had a fit of graphomania. Characters and events are propelled by a distinctive prose that frequently mixes teenage trash talk and intellectual abstraction, a Bevis-and-Egghead style that should set older folk aback and college kids abuzz." Set in a not-so-distant future where New England has been declared a toxic waste dump, the novel is a sprawling examination of annihilating diversions in an age of addictive entertainment. "'Infinite Jest' hurls its maximalist bulk, flamboyant style and unbuttoned erudition at all that might...
...Everyone was kind of taken aback by it," Harvard coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "It certainly puts things in proper perspective...
...Everyone was taken aback by it," Harvard coach Ronn Tomassoni said. "It certainly puts things into proper perspective because it could have been a whole lot worse. Fortunately, everyone's fine...
People on the street eminently dressed in business suits and carrying briefcases seemed taken aback by the gathering. In their eyes, the 1980s "me decade" was supposed to have thoroughly put to death the days of student activism. What has happened instead is that Newt Gingrich has given student activism a surprisingly sudden resurrection. Thanks, Newt...
Students said they were taken aback when Frank proceeded to implement the change halfway through class...