Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adventure had cut too deep in his memory, and into what was more than mere memory . . . cut beyond all the good sense and reasonableness that made life seem worthwhile-or even tolerable." Matt finds his dark face-his hostile violent face-"a monstrous obtrusion on the relatively bright scene that was reflected all around...
MINK and sable, the Big Two of the fur world, can still be seen on the salon racks, regal as ever in traditional brown or black. But their luster is somewhat diminished this season by bright new competitors designed to make the fur-and the fur sales-fly. Right up there with the mink and the sable, the chinchilla, the ermine and the fox, are such low-status pelts as wolf, monkey, weasel, bull and yak. Without examining the label, however, even a zoologist would have trouble identifying the newcomers. For the furs have become checked, striped, flowered and wholly...
Kirkland downed Adams, 6-9 in a tackle contest, but Adams's Dan Levin predicted a bright future. "We've got a new quarterback, and we're going to win our last three: even against Eliot." he said. Adams...
...hidden political questions in social science research can also be seen by considering advisory work performed for the government. Vernon feels that most consultants with government agencies lends the adviser an opportunity to press for "new initiatives, bright departures" in established policies. A political scientist who gave advice on counter insurgency warfare or political development in Vietnam. for example, would probably justify his activity by saying that he was merely offering technical assistance: the question of whether the policy was appropriate was irrelevant to his own technical, non-ideological role. By saying nothing about the purposes of counter-insurgency warfare...
...aware that no student organization speaks for all of student opinion. In the words of one of our student consultants, "One must always remember...that the first premise in dealing with representation of Harvard students is that they do not want to be represented, and they feel as bright and articulate as their fellow students, and capable of speaking for themselves...