Word: brief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...likely to reach a wide audience; it is not geared to anyone outside the small circle of people who are concerned with the Seven Sisters Conference--administrators, faculty, and students at these small, unique schools. Baker cannot answer the questions she poses. In her conclusion, she turns to a brief discussion of President Horner's "fear of success" thesis about women's motivation, suggesting that the people who make up the Seven Sisters community may be too socialized into deference to take the steps necessary to keep their institutions from becoming complete anachronisms. It is not an earth-shaking problem...
...multicellular organism in which each part functions to the betterment of the whole. Keeley first discusses the interplay between the literal city of Alexandria and Cavafy's mythical counterpart. He then treats each plane--the sensual (contemporary) and historical--separately, and finally unifies the two in a brief discussion of the poet's latest work, and the beginnings of a "universal mode," which led George Seferis, a Cavafy scholar, to state...
When the United Mine Workers elected Arnold Miller president five years ago, ousting autocratic Boss Tony Boyle, the rank and file thought they had inaugurated an era of reform and tranquillity for their battered union. They could not have been more mistaken. After a brief period of harmony, hostilities resumed. They have not ceased. Now they threaten to topple Miller and ignite a potentially crippling nationwide coal strike next winter...
LANVIN, whose designer Jules Francois Crahay was one of the discoverers of couture paysanne, has citified the look with sleeveless jackets over peasant blouses, accordion-pleated dresses and brief, embroidered bodices above huge skirts...
Coming from almost any author but Samuel Beckett, 70, these two collections might seem slight to the point of frippery. Ends and Odds contains eight brief pieces for the stage, radio or television. Fizzles offers an even more self-derisive title, generous margins, plenty of white space and eight snippets of prose, the longest of which does not quite fill nine pages. Yet in Beckett's case, the oddity is not that $13.90 (plus tax) purchases so few words, but that those words were written...