Word: depending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such restraints hurt. Pushkin depend edon his writing for a living and, in fact, became Russia's first really pro fessional writer. But restraint could not temper his flamboyant mode of life, which was Byronic - though not in the usual sense. Pushkin's affinity was for the rational, irreverent side of Byron's temperament, and he delighted in mocking the romantic conventions of his day. In an early poem, The Caucasian Captive, he had a maiden fall into a stream and the hero refuse to jump in and rescue her. "I've swum in Caucasian streams...
...success of Harvard's hockey team in upcoming games with Yale and Cornell will depend to a great extent upon teamwork, and teamwork is the trademark of three sophomores who constitute the team's explosive line...
Barnaby, commenting on Harvard's lack of success at Annapolis, said, "We're going to try to break that jinx; we have a good team, and the boys are eager." Barnaby added. "The weekend will depend upon how well we adjust to the different courts, and the different balls we'll be using...
...have to manage, so we drift or plunge into a group. Harvard the whole place becomes almost as much outside my perimeter as the world beyond it. Unlike some other groups in society, many of the ones at Harvard encourage imagination and creativity--some in fact depend on it for their existence as groups. But even then, it is a circumscribed kind of creativity and it leads to a circumscribed individuality. It is the oneness of the group in relation to the outside. There is an overriding sense of the outside. In a creative individual, too, there is an acute...
...ever been convicted in any U.S. court of "organizing, promoting, encouraging, or participating in a riot or civil disorder"-provided that the offense was a felony carrying a penalty of more than one year in jail. To politically active professors and students throughout the U.S.-many of whom depend on federal research funds-Public Law 90-373 now has ominous significance. As they see it, the law is one more disturbing piece of evidence that the Government is trying to legislate standards of behavior on campus...