Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before the event, BLSA and the TWC learned that the HJLSA would protest the speaker's presence at Harvard. During the presentation, HJLSA protesters interrupted the speaker so frequently and so boisterously that the audience was deprived of the opportunity to hear his speech. One was left with the distinct impression that the purpose of disrupting the discussion was to convince BLSA and the TWC to never again invite a PLO speaker to Harvard. Neither the Dean nor other members of the faculty spoke-out against this disruption and violation of free speech...
East Germans have had it drummed into them that they are citizens of the German Democratic Republic, a nation as distinct from West Germany as are two other German-speaking nations, Austria and Switzerland. But after 40 years of division the yearning to transcend the ideological boundaries that divide East and West Germany is still strong. Ulrich Plenzdorf, an East German novelist and playwright whose works sell on both sides of the Wall, argues that "no matter how many adjectives the system may use to describe itself, the 'German' remains." When a West German border guard once asked...
...with a strong patriotic sensibility. When the enlists in the Navy he tells his distraught wife that "They've started it, we've got to finish it." In addition, there are Kay's fellow factory workers who, as the movie progresses, become recognizable by face, but never by a distinct personality...
...with his grief more effectively than his father. It is often hard to imagine that Andrew can be at once mourning for his mother, attempting to capture his father's affections and lavishing attention on his cherubic younger brother. Miles (Huckleberry Fox). Andrew's jealousy at his father's distinct favoritism is inexplicably missing: he seems to accept his father's coolness-almost indifference--without question...
...That's a very distinct possibility," said Bok, who sat in on last week's meeting of the Faculty Council, the Faculty's elected executive committee, to discuss the issue...