Word: depths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bases its decisions on four streamlined sources of information: standardized test scores, academic transcripts, personal essays, and letters of reference. There are no indulgent interviews; there is no provision for "supplementary materials." The undergraduate admissions office has more information at its disposal, Geraghty concedes. Sheer numbers make the same depth impractical at the Law School...
...Madness is exotic. True, it is no longer celebrated, as it was in the heyday of R.D. Laing and the "politics of experience,"as the only real sanity in this world of (nuclear, capitalist, fill-in-the-blanks) insanity. But it retains a mystique, a reputation for authenticity and depth of vision. We know that the mentally ill inhabit a terrible place, literally a place of terrors. But that makes madness, like its two-dimensional facsimile, the horror film, all the more titillating...
...most controversy was generated not by the depth of the problem but by the attitude of the U.S., which accounts for 44% of the developed world's contributions to global family planning. In his address, Radio Free Europe Director and Chief U.S. Delegate James Buckley announced that the U.S. would redirect its financial assistance to organizations that do not promote abortion as a method of family planning. Said Buckley: "This reflects a sharpening of focus to make U.S. foreign assistance programs more responsive to true needs and more reflective of fundamental values...
...reading, Reve finds himself followed by a devastatingly poised, icy blonde with a film camera. When she propositions him. Reve accepts, just as coolly--because he has nothing better to do, or because he doesn't like hotels, the depth of his motivation is anyone's guess. The fling picks up momentum only when Gerard finds a picture of the young man he'd missed on the previous day on Christine's desk. The man, it turns out, is her long-distance lover Reve is elated: megalomania becomes monomania, as he schemes and manipulates Christine into inviting...
...Only Problem, Muriel Spark's latest novel, slides by with the elegant concision of a parable. Spark's economical narration, piercing judgment, and marvelous ear give her story the easy-to-watch quality of a cartoon, while the explicit statement of her concerns evokes a depth which is left for the reader to supply. Reading her novel is like looking at the reflections on the surface of a slow, but full and moving stream...