Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk over polemics and specific details over abstractions, White has been dismissed in some quarters as a miniaturist a little too long on charm and short on substance. It is true that big ideas seldom engaged him unless they could be broken down into parts that made clear and common sense. His response to the hue and cry for loyalty oaths during the Communist witch hunts in the early 1950s was typical. He ignored ideology and compressed the body politic into a single form: "If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature...
...only reason he could find for the Date Match's failure on the Wellesley side was skepticism. "It's not a common way to meet people here," he says. "Maybe we're just a little before out time...they laughed at Christopher Columbus...
Zeng Xiao Jun: exhibition in Harvard Adams House Lower Common Room, through...
...victory has sparked a small controversy among followers of American's national pastime, or at least one would think so reading the patriotic pages of the Boston Globe and The New York Times this week. While it has been common knowledge ever since the demise of the Yankee dynasty of the fifties that non-yankees (read: non- Americans) could play the sport, no one has seemed prepared to face the unbelievable: that the invaders might play in a World Series. No one, that is, until...
...first premonition proved correct: he and I shared a lot in common. The blonde in most of his Polaroids could have been the one that I had chased in high school. He and his best friend owned practically the same green Chevy Malibu that my cousin and I wrecked. Even his most hated teacher reminded me of the walrus-like man that ostensibly taught me beginning Biology...