Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into Mandarin Chinese. In spite of extensive time spent in Beijing doing just that, Patrick Kavanagh's latest project, his first novel, is not so stylistically influenced as one might think. Rather than plunging into boggy streams of consciousness, Kavanagh emulates Joyce's focus on style more than his actual stylistic techniques, resulting in an ornately wrought work with a commanding sense of place and experience...
...wasn't always so. It used to be a wonderful, well-defined, significant place where powerful Radcliffe women lived and studied, an actual and beautiful place where Harvard students could attend dinner, partake of a seminar, watch parades and athletic events, or have great coffee and conversation in an impressive Radcliffe living room...
...what to do? How about, as a first step, bringing back some actual full-fledged Radcliffe students. Let them live as a group at the Radcliffe Quad. Students are the very life blood of a college. Just because Harvard went co-ed in the '70s doesn't have to mean that Radcliffe should gradually cease to exist. Let Harvard remain coeducational and let there be a true Radcliffe. Let it have its own all-women student body, its own dorms and library at the Radcliffe Quad, its own activities at Radcliffe Yard, its own sports teams competing with other fine...
...forecast many trends that have come true: decentralization, the communications revolution, the rise of services, genetic engineering, threats to privacy, nuclear proliferation. They were optimistic about the economy, predicting huge increases in personal income and the GNP (they forecast an increase to $3.6 trillion, thus falling short of the actual figure, at latest count, by about $5 trillion). They also foresaw a rise in hedonism and a decline in the work ethic. There were the inevitable misjudgments and omissions--especially, as Bell now concedes, a lack of any reference to the dramatic change in the role of women...
...says that the rocks caused damages in the"thousands of dollars" to a brand new Chevyblazer. But when tabulated, the actual damages,which the three students have already paid,amounted...