Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grand traditions. They use Celtic imagery, and Keineg sings one song, the stately O Iesu Mawr, in Gaelic; O'Connor quotes William Butler Yeats on the liner notes of her CD, and O'Riordan pays him tribute in the song Yeats' Grave. This awareness of a particular past helps distinguish their songs from the typical rootless algae of pop music. In his poem A Coat, Yeats wrote, "I made my song a coat/ Covered with embroideries/ Out of old mythologies/ From heel to throat." As modern women conscious of an Irish heritage, O'Riordan, O'Connor and Keineg are creating...
These commentators act in the best tradition of intellectual analysis. The techniques of statistics and forms of debate in the social sciences are meant to distinguish truth from hogwash...
...Radi Annab '95, president of Harvard's Society of Arab Students, said it is important to distinguish between the Palestinian people and their leaders in the Palestine Liberation Organization and the tiny extremist group Hamas...
...hard to distinguish between their actual platforms," said new council member Eric Silberstein '98. "They said all the things you'd expect them to say and those were all the same...
...speeches they made [Sunday] night didn't really help me distinguish between them," he said. "I felt like I understood them pretty well before I got there. And I wasn't really that excited about any of them...