Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dominant note of [Harvard] is impersonal. The vastness of the reading room, the great mass of students who are necessarily total strangers to each other, the lack of any common life not only of the School as a whole but of individual classes--all make against having that feeling of at-homeness without which there can be no inner peace and satisfaction...
...social capital is it? Everyone and her roommate may be in several student groups, but does that necessarily translate into greater interaction and more comprehensive social networks? The answer, I fear, is no. While some of the new groups are public service organizations (which bring people together in common purpose), most are very specific in their target audience (see "The Texas Club") and feature long lists of inert members. A telling example is the Asian-American Association (AAA), which is one of the largest ethnic organization on campus. This distinction is based on the size of AAA's electronic mailing...
STEP 4 And even though you've completely ignored the common meaning of the word, pat yourself on the back for your courage: "I stand by my remark...
...common response to heart surgery is depression. Wolfe's was delayed but finally hit in January 1997. "I'd never been depressed before," he says, "and I couldn't understand what was happening to me. I looked at the novel and thought it was a failure. I hadn't told enough about Charlie's early life, Conrad was dull and so forth. It seemed useless to go on with it." At this point, Wolfe's inborn personal reticence became an obstacle to his recovery. He once told an interviewer that he would not take his troubles to his best friend...
...brief, because of the value of comparison. Australia was the last, and North America the second to last, of the habitable continents to be colonized by Europeans sharing what was essentially a common art tradition. Both continents in the 19th century were still largely wilderness. So how did the painting of wilderness, and of its ordering, play out in both places? What kinds of values were assigned to landscape by the respective artists? What images arose from the colonists' desire to claim the land, to "humanize" it, to put their stamp on it? How did the white invaders...