Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sganarelle done with wooden poles and bedsheets to his Wilsonesque The Juniper Tree with its giant, inexplicable rhinocerous, has been original and rewarding. He has no distinctive stylistic trademark other than a fertile imagination and a refreshingly practical understanding of the stage and stage practice. His one consistent method, common with auteur directors, has been to rely on classic texts. A playwright can't argue with a ground-breaking interpretation of his text when he's been dead for a century...
Wailing against unspecific word definitions is my favorite activity. As soon as someone attempts to answer a section leaders question, I like to excitedly break in and say something like. "Fah! Your words are open to blatant misunderstanding! Surely we must establish a common vocabulary if we can ever hope to fathom even a modicum of what Pope meant. That is to say, what he 'meant', what he MEANT, and-or what he "MEANT'! It is simply meaningless to go on unless common meanings are first established and maintained...
...Quincy House resident says she fills her ads with specific allusions to songs and performers she likes in order to garner compatible respondents. She has included lines from Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson because she says people who pick up on these cues must have something in common with...
Though his tactics and outlook may seem like the products of mere common sense, Murphy is deserving of special praise for his efforts. It was only a year ago that Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 made a very different kind of trip to South Africa. He traveled there--as the chairman of the University committee with responsibility for spending the fund--with a specific preordained plan in hand for spending part of a $1 million aid fund...
After several clues pointed to the presence of an unwanted pet in Weld North 28, James H. Colopy '90 laid a trap Friday afternoon in the common room radiator. He checked the trap on Sunday and noticed something had fallen for his bait...