Word: attempting
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...Amidst the apocalyptic clamor surrounding the millennium, this six-week series represents a modest attempt to slow the pace of celebration and anxiety," said Ann Pellegrini '86, assistant professor of English. "En route to the 21st century, we ask how women and gender might help us to think and enact the future with a feminist critical difference...
Springfest is the council's annual and largest attempt to "build community" at Harvard. Despite our efforts to recruit an audience for Springfest, each year, the turnout is lower than expected. As one council member pointed out, even when the dining halls were closed for lunch, the council still could not "starve" students into taking part in the MAC Quad festivities. Other council attempts at fostering community have proven to be exercises in futility...
Hitler called his cruise missiles Vergeltungswaffen--vengeance weapons--but the Londoners who were their targets scornfully dubbed them doodlebugs. In the summer of 1944, more than 2,400 of the V-1 buzz bombs fell on England as the Nazi dictator made a last, futile attempt to break Britain's will. A half-century and a technological revolution later, the cruise missile has evolved into a superbly accurate flying bomb that can hit almost any spot on earth. It has also become President Bill Clinton's weapon of choice to provide the explosive oomph to back up his foreign...
...will continue to know her under a different name, which is a point of some significance. Prior to her martyrdom, Teresa's name was Edith Stein, and she was born Jewish. The consequences of that status led Jewish leaders last week to term the canonization "problematic," "offensive" and "an attempt to appropriate the Holocaust without coming to grips with it." They see it as part of a dissonant motif in Pope John Paul II's otherwise triumphant symphony of Catholic-Jewish brotherhood--a masterwork that is very much part of his grand plan for the church's millennial jubilee...
Girls today are in trouble. They lose confidence in early adolescence. Their grades plummet, and, following sexual stereotypes, their interest in math and science flags. They are plagued by eating disorders, suffer depression, get pregnant, attempt suicide. And it all makes headlines, spawns research projects and prompts calls for single-sex education...