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Word: byronism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family and always had to start over, "at the bottom of the ladder." People continually made fun of him--"my face, my hair, my shirts." As for Klebold, "If you could see all the anger I've stored over the past four f___ing years..." he says. His brother Byron was popular and athletic and constantly "ripped" on him, as did the brother's friends. Except for his parents, Klebold says, his extended family treated him like the runt of the litter. "You made me what I am," he said. "You added to the rage." As far back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Tapes: The Columbine Tapes | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...Petruss encroachment on her land as a kind of indirect punishment for the historical wrongs committed by her race. To Lurie, this is at first incomprehensible. He still needs to have recourse to avenues of escape from realityphysical pleasure; a fantasy about writing an opera on the poet Byron and his mistress Teresa; a longing for a former, more heroic self; anger and outrage. But the novel traces the process whereby he is able to find his own way of expiating his abuse of power and his guilt at being useless to his daughter and thereby is able to confront...

Author: By Cerdiwen Dovey, | Title: Booker Winner Visits the Smallholdings | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...like the old Ichabod; he is the hero and the comic relief in one tightly wound package. Doesn't always work, but we've been admiring this actor's bravado and forgiving his excesses for ages. Why stop now? Besides, he ultimately makes Ichabod a truly obsessive romantic hero: Byron by Ahab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tim Burton's Tricky Treat | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Eitzmann grew up in Hardy, Nebraska, and attended Chester-Hubbell-Byron High School, which had a mere 50 students. After a successful three-sport high school career in which he excelled in football, basketball and track, Eitzmann graduated in a class of eight...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From the Prairie to the Pigskin | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

However, this year the top two offices were elected early so the new leadership would be in place for a Nov. 29 semiannual meeting with the senior advisory committee of the IOP, according to outgoing SAC chair Byron J. McLain...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP Committee Elects Chairs | 11/9/1999 | See Source »

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