Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Green's subsequent attempt at a full-court inbounds pass to their aptly-named star center Sterling Edmonds was foiled by a cluster of Harvard defenders, and--all of a sudden--this crazy game belonged to the Crimson...
Literary interpretation employs secrecy and trickery in its attempt to comprehend an unfollowable world, Frank Kermode told a crowd of approximately 200 in his final Charles Eliot Norton Lecture...
...necessary background to do the work? Whether or not I am capable of learning the background material is not the issue, for if I have not learned it how could I do the more advanced work? If one is unfamiliar with the English language, perhaps that person should attempt to gain some knowledge of it before demanding to be admitted to Harvard (and how does one decide that words are familiar to one racial group and not to others? Economics...
...midst of an extraordinary renaissance. Obviously this great literary revival has escaped general notice. But here again, within the beaten track of professional criticism, there is a pervasive sense of monotony, as if all the commentary masks a deeper literary ill health in America, and is an attempt to make significant and permanent writing which is inevitably transient...
...series of lectures, entitled "On Telling The Truth," will attempt to provide the audience with an ethical framework with which to resolve individual conflicts involving decisions whether or not to tell the truth, Bok said...