Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number of lands, in fact, ranging from India (the New Delhi Deli) and Italy (the Marco Polo eatery) to the Far East (the Dynasty restaurant) and something vaguely resembling the old Belgian Congo (the Safari Steakhouse). The decor inside the hotel is a giddy clash between the Forbidden City and Disneyland, in which virtually everything is either pink or purple -- unless it's gold. There are pink acoustic-tile ceilings, pink slot machines, pink Louis XV chairs in the reception area. There is a pink motorcycle parked in the '50s diner called Rock and Rolls, and there are pink chandeliers...
...Harvard's performance in its fall clash with William & Mary yielded less optimistic results...
...scientist tries to isolate the force inside each cell that triggers evolution; the postal clerk peruses dead letters by the carload in search of a secret code among the supernatural elect. They clash as men and then, having transcended mere morality through their discoveries, as ever more abstruse ! forms of energy. Like most fantasy novelists, Barker does not feel compelled to be logical or consistent: the dreamlike narrative has a kitchen-sink inclusiveness and cheats the rationalist in that characters turn out in mid- action to be someone else entirely, cunningly disguised. But the images are vivid, the asides incisive...
...Eliot House party was not a hostile clash of intolerant people. Rather it was a refreshing meeting of a variety of tastes, and all had fun. In fact, the Eliot House Committee has decided to make the "Club Euro" party an annual event...
HARVARD should take a lesson from John Stuart Mill. If we do not listen to abhorrent ideas, our own are valueless. They become totems that we carry around simply because everyone does. To quote a popular cliche, the essence of intellectual progress is the clash of ideas: when there is only one "correct" idea, everything stagnates in a bath of tepid, kneejerk liberalism...