Word: distinction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same venom and guilt as its predecessors, and Zuckerman continues to be tormented by the same medusa-like females, self-righteous Jews, and spiteful relatives that have historically oppressed him. Yet if the subjects of The Anatomy Lesson sound all too predictable, the tone of the novel is distinct...
...CENTRAL INGREDIENT missing from Old Acquaintance is energy. The characters move with a distinct sense of unease, reciting their lines by rote as if they're reading from the script. From the sense of ennui and uncertainty the actors themselves generate, it is difficult to determine whether they lack adequate preparation or are simply sick of reciting the same old lines. When the characters occasionally do interact with each other, the result seems more like children squabbling over marbles than adults bickering over marriage...
Asking whether Harvard belongs in the top five is like asking whether the U.S. is one of the top five nuclear superpowers. Snide, you say? Maybe, Arrogant? Probably. But it's the veritas nonetheless. Harvard may not be the best of all possible collegiate worlds, though that's a distinct possibility, but who are our real world "competitors...
Rosen said that student were dissatisfied with the Big Green because it was too abstract. "The force of tradition is a big part of our problem be said adding. We have a lot of school spirit and the students want a distinct rallying point...
...Democrats are all trying so hard to have distinct platforms that their campaigns have degenerated into "a kind of auction--the candidates raise an issue and say how they will bid to get votes," McCarthy said...