Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cause was the trainees' anger over their dismal housing. They derisively call the aging barracks "Idi Amin's Castle" and the "Haven for Thieves." There is little privacy, toilets frequently do not work, and locker doors are so flimsy that thefts of cash, clothes and cameras are common...
...They have three things in common," he noted. "They're in all in their 50s or early 60s, they all still have incredibly fast reactions and, with the exception of Wiesel, they are not strong on philosphy...
This circle of wolves had one thing in common: it was their first night at Harvard. Fifty years hence, the room would remain intact; but this peculiar amalgamation of souls would never come to rejoin--perhaps only later in heaven or hell. But between freshman year, heaven and hell, each would come to love and be what the other sitting beside him would hate and despise. The only thing they all had to cherish at this tiny joint in time was their strangeness, and in time it would all diffuse...
...perceives as the pros and cons of making a specific decision. Some of the tools are a bit gimmicky, such as one which examines the conflict in the context of a game with a set series of moves and group of players, and developing a "yesable proposition," or, in common language, a solution to the conflict...
American film makers, slicker and warier, searched for directness in youngsters who also had good looks. Natalie Wood, in Miracle on 34th Street, was artlessly worldly. Dean Stockwell, almost romantically handsome, gave a performance of fearless vulnerability in Down to the Sea in Ships. Stockwell had much in common with Roddy McDowall, who earlier in John Ford's How Green Was My Valley had been one of the first young actors to combine sensitivity and uncertainty without losing the basic strength of childhood. They both anticipated the dreaminess and longing of Brandon De Wilde in Shane...