Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move to a new town and another school and start over. This time, however, John's parents rejected the expert advice. People would find out anyway, they reasoned. It was better to stay put and be open about what had happened. Their strategy seems to have worked. After a brief transition, John was accepted by his peers in a way that Joan never was. Once, when John first began dating, he confessed to a would-be girlfriend that he was insecure about his penis, and she started telling tales in school about his condition. But Joan's old schoolmates stuck...
Given this brief sketch of the play's proportions, it is not hard to see why the space at the Ex was physically too small, especially for three hours. Nonetheless, the set design by Zak Sung '99 was one of the most impressive parts of the play: a deep, eerily colored stage with a pregnant white veil above and with thin, dry trees at the wings...
...Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) test, since 1974 a rite of passage for first-years, would be phased out under the CRC's plan, its primary-colored study books deemed "too brief an exposure for our undergraduates, given the clear need for greater fluency in quantitative matters," in the working paper...
...little over 2,000 years ago, Julius Caesar perished in a brutal stabbing by other members of the Roman Senate. A brief snapshot of the time follows...
...people principally responsible for getting Schauer [to the Kennedy School], I feel a particular sense of pride that he has done so well in such a brief period," said Kalb. "He has a wide-ranging mind, broad interests, deep commitment to public policy, mixed with a warm and engaging personality...