Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today there are 105 predominantly black colleges. About half belong to state university systems that have been engaged in legal battles with Washington over integration. But it is the private black colleges that have the oldest and strongest identity to defend...
...Venice of modernism, to slide into debility. It is a simplification, but not a wholly unfair one, to say that during those 20 years Paris felt, interpreted and amplified all the historical tensions of its time except within the visual arts. The moral triumphs of the period, in France, belong more to literature than to painting or sculpture...
...secret favorite of some college professors and was indebted to the populist film comedies of Frank Capra. It was the story of got-rich-quick innocents coping with the darker side of the American Dream-the fear that even with money and social access they could never belong. Eleven years later, the Clampetts are settled, even smug, with no remaining sense of wonder about the world. CBS has concocted a wacko two-hour plot about using moonshine to replace gasoline. But there are no warmhearted wackos to populate it, except Imogene Coca, too late to save the show...
...length. "They need to be convinced that they can sit for 8% hours and still enjoy themselves." The question should not be whether you can sit still, but whether, as Nickleby unfolds, you will ever want to leave. If the show plays to empty seats, the failure will not belong to the R.S.C. or the importers, but to the Broadway audience...
...does not rely on his theories to retain the reader's interest. Nearly everyone has some needless anxiety--a fear of heights or of strangers, of small dogs or public speaking. But Wolpe ignores these more common fears, packing his chapters instead with a parade of human oddities which belong in psychiatric journals or future editions of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. We meet Dale, a 33-year-old man who is deeply upset each day by the late afternoon sun. There is Tim, a boy of three who won't eat in the presence of fur, fuzz...