Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dead, but pure funk. The Lounge also has its own band, whose members happen to be away for the semester. Several of the rooms house guitars and other instruments, and a variety of art decorates the walls of the building: modern paintings, a bright totem pole, even a questionable headless cupid or two. But residents don't consider themselves a particularly artistic crowd, though that obviously changes from year to year...
Within a tiny three-inch by three-inch cube of space, a bright red corkscrew spiral appeared out of thin air and began to rotate in three dimensions...
While enjoying free Toscanini's ice cream and yesterday's bright sunshine, Eat-In participants said they were also taking a stand against social coercion of women...
Harvard is a particularly easy place for this sort of gut reaction. Given the fact that many students here are very bright and strongly intellectual, most people are very quick to pick up on signals and interpret them in one way or another. For instance, if John is strolling through the yard and passes Marc, who he barely knows, looking down at the ground, John quickly surmises that Marc doesn't recognize him or doesn't like him. No matter if it was an intentional brush off, John will decide that he and Marc are not on speaking terms...
...black students admitted under affirmative action--their average SAT scores were 288 points below the Berkeley average--this dropout rate is understandable. These students were arbitrarily thrown into an environment with students far more advanced academically. The result was predictable: failure. Even more tragic is the fact that these bright black students, as social theorist Thomas Sowell puts it, "were perfectly qualified to be successes somewhere else" but were instead "artificially turned into failures by being admitted to high-pressure campuses, where only students with exceptional academic backgrounds can survive...