Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been privileged to work with them on a variety of issues over the last two years. As council treasurer, Beth has restored order and discipline to our fiscal situation after a period of flux and confusion. She has been a voice of common sense amid the clamor of silliness that so often besets the council, and she will do the student body proud as president. For his part, Sam has brought unrivaled energy and dynamism to his job as chair of the Campus Life Committee; many of you will have seen him staffing the shuttles to Yale and flipping...
...work entitled Nostradamus: The Complete Prophesies. Hogue fancies himself something of a prophet in his own right and his commentaries give new meaning to the term "exegesis." Nonetheless, he does reproduce the original, archaic French text, so I sat down with his volume to discover what all the clamor was about...
...Amid the clamor of Jiang Zemin's visit and somber skies, the Harvard International Conference on Euthanasia began Saturday...
...effects for the furniture, whereas Meier wanted neither. The period decor, which was handled by the New York City architect-decorator Thierry Despont, is a flop. But Meier served the art very well, with a series of generously proportioned, plain, high-ceilinged and top-lighted galleries that don't clamor for attention and do create a feeling of undistracted serenity. They recall the enfilade effects of older museums, but Meier has cunningly provided the links between them with unexpected openings, panoramic glimpses of the radiant townscape through glass walls, views of the museum's own light-struck exterior...
...became to American art in the 1950s and '60s what Whitman was to American poetry in the 1880s--the Great Permitter, with his declared hope to "act in the gap between art and life." This, one wants to say, is the artist of American democracy, yearningly faithful to its clamor, its contradictions, its hope and its enormous demotic freedom, all of which find shape in his work. Other American artists have had this ambition--one thinks of Robert Henri and the Ashcan painters at the turn of the century--but none fulfilled it so well...