Word: commons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carey attempts to prove that though Loos associated with the excesses and inanities of Hollywood life, she clung to a reserved, almost conventional outlook. Carey's book is thorough, almost painstakingly so. He does not fall into the trap of treating his subject with simpering adoration, a common pitfall of Hollywood biographies. But Carey's impassive storytelling is dry, relying too often on Loos' detailed diary to the exclusion of analysis. Do we really need to know that, "That afternoon, while Gladys was still in Teaneck, she prepared a lunch of toast and Lipton's chicken noodle soup and started...
Administrators have said that Harvard had a"contractual commitment" to participate in thetakeover. However, one investor, the Common-wealthof Massachusetts pension fund, successfullyrefused to allow its funds to be used in thebuyout, citing RJR's involvement in South Africa...
...battle for definition needs to be fought over more than the words "liberal" and "conservative." Many terms and expressions used as part of the common American political dialogue contain a prior subjective definition which skews their meaning automatically to the right. During the next four years, the right wing will continue to hold the language of politics hostage. The following is a glossary of the continuing political re-definitions of some old words...
Professor of Mathematics Mark W. McConnell, who sings and plays the flute, offered a historical approach to the question. Math and music, he says, share a common history which dates back to ancient Greece. Pythagoras, famous for his theorum on triangles, is also considered to be a pioneer in music theory...
...certainly is easy to speculate that because math and music grew out of a common historical framework, it drew them together," says McConnell. "It sounds believable...