Word: distinctively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outside his hotel room, I had talked to those in line. When I dared to question the selection of 1876 as a terminal date for the job description ("American History to 1876"), my competitor for the position gave me a short and slashing lecture on the process by which distinct historical eras come to a close or begin. When I mentioned my reservations about the quality of the students, he dismissed my maunderings with the statement that I might as well apply to Harvard or Yale if I was worried about the quality of students. Then to enter the untidy...
Perhaps it is the inbreeding, or their isolation, or both, that cause the peculiarities of their behavior. Or perhaps it was my naive eye that saw what was not there. The natives have a distinct style. A behavioral scientist might understand the manifestations of this style; a tourist can only let the impressions reflect and magnify in the back of his mind's eye. Is something special in the way children congregate around the big tree and roller skate on only one foot? Is something special when they swing their arms downward and slap spinning wooden tops...
...even if the conference taught them as much about what Harvard is like today as Kissinger's 20-minute "off-the-record" luncheon address taught them about foreign policy, there was a distinct, serious effort to shed the old-school-tie and partying atmosphere that has often characterized such affairs...
...left and the right respectively on the social consciousness scale. The problem. the report says, is not which is the better of the two; it is how to achieve the best balance between them. And, supposedly, this can best be achieved by looking at social issues as three distinct types. These models include: (1) Those decisions which directly affect the University-where there is a "collateral" effect caused by a university decision (e.g., building, expansion); (2) Decisions in which the societal impact is intended-such as the sponsoring of the Center for Population Studies; (3) Social and political issues such...
...Berryman is not the Catullus of the Lesbia poems. Most of all, he exhibits a distinct lack of tenderness, none of the possessive but touching love of a Catullus. His poems assert his genius, his talent, his machismo, nowhere celebrate the virtues of another. This is only fair, since Love and Fame is an autobiography. In it, Berryman traces his life from Columbia and Cambridge through an asylum to riches, reputation and religion. The book is in sections, each a stage of his life, and the poetry corresponds, starting brash and young, ending old and mellow...