Word: alerted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dynamic lecturer, Kelly not only sings, he also plays the piano, draws diagrams, brings in live performers and plays CDs and videos to make his points and keep his students alert at 10 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays...
...three years ahead of William Bennett, the entrepreneurial virtue-monger of the '90s. We are all Gonzaga boys. I see any one of us, long ago, mounting the stage in the dusky Gonzaga auditorium and declaiming "A Message to Garcia," while black-cassocked Jesuits perch along the sidewalls, alert and ominous as crows...
...Harvard women's basketball team is on full battle station alert this weekend to preserve its throne atop the Ancient Eight, and you can expect some all-out basketball from this year's team of stars. IVY STANDINGS IVY OVERALL Team W L PCT W L PCT Harvard 8 1 .889 15 6 .714 Dartmouth 7 2 .778 15 6 .714 Yale 6 4 .600 11 11 .500 Brown 6 4 .600 9 13 .409 Princeton 5 4 .556 15 8 .652 Cornell 5 5 .500 10 12 .455 Columbia 1 9 .100 2 20 .091 Penn...
...glad to see a budget letter as comprehensive and with as good financial news as this one. There is always work to be done, however, and we must stay alert to make sure Harvard does not lapse into a larger deficit or drag its heels in hiring...
...Iran's master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (who did the script for The White Balloon), labors under a far more censorious burden than any Hollywood director. Yet his sly comedy is wonderfully open to life's coincidences and consequences; it shows an uncondescending interest in children even as it is alert to their gamin guile. His film deserves viewers, supporters--perhaps even a statuette...