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...often students seem content to compile information from various sources, to stick it together in a paper, to make some abvious statements about that evidence, and to believe they have done a good piece of writing." --From Expos Director Richard Marius's Report on Undergraduate Writing. (10/7/1987...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quotable Notables | 2/3/1988 | See Source »

...does not love Piero, although she does find him attractive. She tries to avoid all physical and emotional contact with him, and the love-making they do engage in finally is brief and unsatisfactory. Vittoria is not as unable to communicate as she is unwilling, for she fears the abvious solution to her problem: solitude...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: Eclipse | 5/22/1963 | See Source »

...advantages are abvious, as shown by the enthusiastic response to college debating where the system is used in England. Speakers obtain experience is swaying audiences rather than in fulfilling a formal set of rules for a single judge in an empty room. The audience receives a stimulating evening. And if the oratory is good enough, the debate group can successfully charge admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hot Air and Harvard Men | 4/27/1951 | See Source »

...Enemy is a play to end war. It shows an Englishman in a friendly Australian home before the War, shows the hatred that blackens friendship as war breaks. All the abvious tear-squeezers are used? drums, marching feet and a baby starving to death. It will probably be considered by the masses to be a masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 2, 1925 | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

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