Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whitla added that the results will be broken down not only by individual course, but also by "smaller groups, for example, students in different major, and in different years...
...novel does offer brief, poetic passages. The shimmer and heat of the Nile, the blaze of Egyptian architecture when it was new and radiant with epochal ambition, the perfume and soft light of a harem garden: all enjoy moments of intense realization. But such moods are continually broken by ludicrous sentences: "In either case, my Pharaoh's mind was now concerned with buttocks." Or: "Now, with the redolence of my nose, I watched and admired the delicacy with which the Pharaoh ate." Mailer's historical posing stalls an already leisurely narration. What gods were cited as witnesses...
...fashionable these days to feel guilty about the treatment of Vietnam vets and the cold welcome these unwitting pawns in a global chess game got. If Charlie Company's experiences are representative, guilty is how we ought to feel. The litany of broken homes, drunken rampages, joblessness--in short, as the authors write, the palming off of a national shame on the vets--is real, and it's time to start remembering...
...director can mangle a script in the interests of originally; their director's Romeo and Juliet was set mysteriously and superfluously in modern-day Belfast, and Bill Coe's Memlet offered the truly creative line-reading "To be, or not?... To be!" But now the fever seems to have broken. Caesar, which will run repertory with Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, demonstrates the virtues of an almost lost art: the straight reading. Unaffected period costumes, a simple Roman-looking set, and very alert casting give the audience a secure sense of a play with dynamism and direction...
...lying, other than routine propaganda, our Defense Department has a regrettable habit of overstating the Soviet threat, and thus our need for all types of weapons, and this habit must be broken if we are ever to control our defense budget. But these facts are mere trifles when compared to Soviet actions over the past 40 years, and it would be ludicrous to draw from them the conclusion that the U.S. is more or even as likely as the Soviets to begin a nuclear...