Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Completely randomizing house assignments--which will probably be the eventual result of changing the free choice system--will homogenize the Harvard community. The diversity of the undergraduate student body is produced by the individuality of its discrete units: the houses. By implementing a random lottery, not only house character--but...
The chief sinner is Williams. When the slave Lucky makes a long, anguished speech, a flux of debased knowledge, Williams enacts the audience's presumed boredom at having to think. He scampers. He pounds the ground. He thrusts a big bone into the slave's hands as though it were...
For department stores, developing private-label garments has its risks. If poorly executed, they can fail just as severely as the most misguided high- fashion trend. But by gaining control over design and manufacturing, department-store merchants think they can stay in closer touch with the tastes of their customers...
"Regardless of what happens with the score of the game, the guys benefit from the experience." Gatto says. "We don't feel the game builds character. We feel it brings out character."
Talenti says it was only gradually that he came to realize that his character, who criticizes Eva's actions throughout the show, actually loves the dictator's wife. He says that Sloan planted the seed of his realization during a rehearsal.