Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's been plenty of time. It's not like this shantytown just popped up," Creed said. He said a recent student attempt to raise the divestment issue at a meeting of university trustees was "rebuffed...
Hockney said that Cubism is an attempt to make the viewer's eye move as if the scene itself were actually moving. Cubist painting achieves this, Hockney said, because it is disjointed; the whole scene cannot be taken in at once but instead forces a spectator to participate in the representation...
Before she dies, Page yearns to visit her childhood home, a barren and deserted Gulf Coast town called Bountiful. She hides her pension check to garner the necessary funds and packs hastily in a desperate attempt to visit Bountiful, but her son and daughter-in-law are bent on preventing her escape...
...University has failed in its attempt to bring back the former Celtic Department chairman who last spring unexpectedly returned to Ireland after just 10 months at Harvard, temporarily stalling what officials had hoped would be a smooth period of rebuilding for the tiny department...
What is at issue here is not the fundamental business of the Undergraduate Council but rather a wimpy attempt to avoid controversial issues. A neutered, "apolitical" council would by no means be a representative body concerned with furthering student interests. It would reduce the council to its worst aspect: a popularity contest, a game in which members aspire to become self-important petty bureaucrats. Perhaps this is an accurate description of what some council members do. But is it really what they ought to be doing...