Word: derring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jewish physics" were a favorite target. Nazis, however, weren't his only foes. For Stalinists, relativity represented rampant capitalist individualism; for some churchmen, it meant ungodly atheism, even though Einstein, who had an impersonal Spinozan view of God, often spoke about trying to understand how the Lord (der Alte, or the Old Man) shaped the universe...
...create space for sacred ritual in a secular age? It's hard to do better than this erratically shaped church. RUNNERS-UP The Seagram Building by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright...
...list of the hottest professors... Gurney Professor of English Literature Derek A. Pearsall has finished distributing copies of that issue to his children... Marshall I. Lewy '99-'00 seems to have moved on to yet another member of the class of 2002. He and Avra C. Van Der Zee '02 got cozy at "Crazy for You"... Josh A. Perry '00 apparently gave a stellar speech at the Signet Society's holiday dinner. "Everyone was very impressed," asserts one Signet member. "It's too bad there isn't more of a literary community here for [Josh]."... Hot Visitor Alert...
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...sailors on shore leave, are attracting ever younger recruits. Chances are that someday soon your 12-year-old--the same kid who cried real tears over getting a booster shot at her last annual checkup--will be bugging you for a naval piercing or a tattoo of James Van Der Beek's face on her midriff...