Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Novels about literary creation are often hermetic, closed like the library stacks of a writer's mind. To gain full access into Joyce, it would be necessary to know exactly the languages and to have read exactly the books he did--to become Joyce, in other words Flaubert's Parrot is formally challenging and richly allusive--French literary history is constantly invoked, even on the level of sentences like "Ed had pondered the menu as if he were Verlaine being brought his first square meal in months" --but it always includes the reader, even the one who may never have...
...retook the morning ratings lead for two weeks. Last week should turn out to be the third in a row, since Today pulled off something of a programming miracle. Responding to the network's shrewdly written (in Polish) request, Pope John Paul II gave NBC extraordinary, although not unprecedented, access to the Vatican as part of the show's week of live broadcasts from Rome. The Pope extended a personal welcome to the NBC crew at his general audience and expressed his hope that the media exposure in the U.S. during Holy Week would "bear much spiritual fruit." After...
...trade review (the other three: electronics, forest products, and pharmaceuticals and medical equipment). Though the presidential envoys may have convinced Nakasone that further movement is necessary, so far U.S. negotiators have made only limited progress in penetrating the thicket of rules and regulations that have effectively denied U.S. manufacturers access to the Japanese telecommunications market. Tokyo reduced the number of technical standards that telephone equipment must meet from 53 to 30, for example, but these still include many features, like the quality of voice transmission, that the U.S. leaves to market taste...
Harvard Vice President for Government and Public Affairs John Shattuck said the University will lobby against the $8000 cap because it "involves all the problems of access and choice" for low and middl income students who might not be able to afford private college...
...music historian, I am primarily interested in increasing the understanding of music from a historical period that we have a hard time getting access to. In order to really perform it right, perceive it right, and understand it right, you have to know quite a bit about its historical context," said Wolff...