Word: brief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Green's only public statement on his private memo was an brief reply to a reporter's question last month: "I think the memo speaks for itself...
...brief telephone interview, Adams House Master Robert Kiely had a philosophical answer to Quad dwellers' concerns...
After intermission, Yoo prefaced the Zwilich by a brief and humorous lecture, citing passages with the aid of the orchestra. The 1984 work rang a bit shallow, however; its influences carefully trace the development of music in the first half of this century and extinguish any hope of originality...
Morgan then directed the orb to freshman Emily Stauffer, who volleyed it from the outside edge of the six-yard box and by the Quaker keeper to put Harvard on top and allow the team a brief sigh of relief...
...title of his brief new work, Field Notes (Knopf; 159 pages; $20), evokes science, but what Lopez offers instead are a dozen fictional sketches from his staked-out territory at the edge of the natural world. The stories are slight, and the term note suggests sketchbook impressions, perhaps, for canvases that might someday be painted. Thus slyly discounted by their author, these spare narrations carry surprising weight. One story, Teal Creek, is nothing more than a teenager's recollection of coming instinctively to respect a rural hermit's solitude. Although Lopez is known for wavering dangerously close to poetic prose...