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Delivering the message is also this week's goal at the Bush headquarters, says Gray. There is "a distinct game plan for the next eight days," he says. "We know what has to be done...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: The Final Push | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...Larsa -- in what is now southern Iraq. All grew to be thriving and fiercely competitive commercial centers. City life was centered around a ziggurat, or temple, that served as both a place of worship and a storehouse for surplus food. For the first time people were divided into several distinct social classes according to status and occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World in 3300 B.C. | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...best ways is question and answer in the Undergraduate Council, or a group of people," Knowles said. "I find that most helpful, seeing the shape of the gener- al concern as distinct from the idiosyncraticconcern...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Provost Announces Spring Office Hours | 10/20/1992 | See Source »

...those machines will probably respond to commands that are spoken or scribbled as well as typed. Families will gather around TV sets with big, high-definition screens and a large menu of interactive options. After a few decades, those familiar forms will blend together and begin to lose their distinct identities. TVs, vcrs, CD players, computers, telephones, video games, newspapers and mail-order catalogs will merge to create new products and services that can only be dimly imagined today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dream Machines | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...20th century, particularly in its first five decades, impressively reflected and helped shape the sensibilities of an age that saw itself as distinct, cut off from its past. "These fragments I have shored against my ruins," wrote T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land (1922), the poem that most typifies its age. A similar attitude prevailed among a number of revolutionary artists: Picasso in art, Stravinsky in music, Joyce in literature, Balanchine in ballet and Mies Van Der Rohe in architecture. Each of these men mastered the techniques of his trade and then saw fit to wrench old forms into previously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Astonishing 20th Century | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

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