Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mississippi when King was killed, and he spent the rest of the year trying to help his students, and himself, understand what had happened. "I went back and back again to the Yeats poem (("The Second Coming," whose lines were quoted many times that year)). It said, 'Things fall apart: the center cannot hold./ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world/ The blood-dimmed tide of innocence is loosed and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned./ The best lack all conviction, while the worst/ are full of passionate intensity.' " Those lines might have been written as the epigraph...
...feuding erupted over portions of a 30-page document released by the nation's bishops that seemed at least to tolerate such instruction as a lesser evil. The hierarchy's 50-member administrative board argued that public education should stress the traditional Christian virtue of abstinence from sex apart from marriage, along with avoidance of intravenous drug use, as the best and morally correct method of containing the AIDS epidemic. But, it acknowledged, in a pluralistic society some people will simply not accept such strictures. Thus, said the bishops, accurate information about prophylactic devices "as a potential means of preventing...
...list of his materials, apart from paint, would include paper, staples, canvas, rough foil formed by throwing a bucket of molten lead on the canvas and letting it cool there, sand, gold leaf, copper wire, woodcuts and lumps of busted ceramic. It is highly unlikely that more than a few will survive for 50 or even 25 years. Kiefer carries a disregard for the permanence of his materials to such an extreme that the lead will not stay in place and the straw on some canvases is already rotting, though this does not seem to discourage collectors...
...study of 4,996 Swedish women ages 20 to 44, conducted for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Cambridge, Mass., think tank. The report found that couples who had lived together and then wedded were 80% as likely to separate or divorce as those who had lived apart...
...just one of the many different factors that each senior adviser weighs in creating the rooming groups in his or her section of the freshman dorms. Karen L. Heath, senior advisor for the Union dorms, says she places a lot of emphasis on keeping night owls and early risers apart, while Stubbs says that she considers musical tastes to be particularly important...