Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unequivocally advocated divestiture of U.S. corporations and banks from South Africa. Many of these groups, including the ANC and SWAPO, have frequently--and recently--sent representatives to Harvard to urge the Harvard community to push for divestiture. Our actions are governed, therefore, not by self-righteousness, but by the constant reassurance of Black South Africans that divestiture is a most effective and desirable tool in ending the oppression of Black South Africans...
Kate's lover is just plain Jake. It is to him that much of Pitch Dark is addressed. The theme of exasperating love, of life with half a loaf, is a constant that puts the narrator's more transitory emotions in humorous perspective. Among them is a case of heebie-jeebies brought on by a side trip to Ireland. In a set piece that could be mistaken for a parody of Hitchcock, Kate makes her way in a balky rental car to a coastal castle...
Furthermore, the erotic and sexual aspects are stretched to a sometimes offensive pitch. The constant return to the one theme rebounded on its intent--to awaken our minds to the issue--by hitting us over the head too many times...
...third book of essays. "Bartleby in Manhattan", without a growing sense of irritation and dismay. Hardwick is a wordsmith who cannot, apparently, control her craft; her essays meander and bring one at long last to a denouement of sorts, without ever really engaging one's interest. She writes with constant reference to pundits both past and present, but without really linking her own criticisms and those she cites to form a coherent whole. A Columbia English professor, Hardwick is strongest with literary criticism, but weaker on popular issues. All too often she writes cryptically of popular media creations such...
Bizet: It is the fate of my other characters and my choral scenes that concerns me. And no offense to the 15-piece ensemble that the music director, Marius Constant, conducts at the rear of the stage and a bit off to the side, but I miss my big orchestra...