Word: echo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Timothy M. Hall '94, co-director of Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO), says that perfectionists and people suffering under family pressure may be predisposed to eating disorders...
...perfectionist tendency provides one explanation for why eating disorders are so prevalent in highly competitive colleges, according to Sheila Riendl, co-supervisor of ECHO and leader of an eating concerns group for bulimic women at the Bureau of Study Counsel...
...papacy 458 years ago has the normally decorous Church of England known such passion as it did last week, when it swept away by a margin of two votes the rule that only men may serve as Anglican priests. Despite pleas for prayer and calm, the controversy will echo throughout the Anglican Communion, and reverberate through all of Christianity, for years to come. On one side are those who believe that the mission of Christ's church is damaged when half its members are denied the chance to use their God-given gifts. On the other are those...
Somewhere back there a voice whispered, "Good bet. Sure bet. The big H!" If you heard this voice, even its faint echo from the study or the kitchen (some of you will deny even this), it doesn't necessarily mean the H stands for hubris or hypocrite. Chances are, you've come to such a conclusion yourself; perhaps you've already justified the choice into oblivion, purged yourself of any guilt. If so, you now belong here. You have kept your erasers in order...
...evening, while the human constellations whirled and skidded around you." That is very much how Ondaatje proceeds. One by one he introduces his characters, and slowly he unlocks their secrets, leading us through their lives as through the darkened corridors of a huge and secret house. Loves flicker, footsteps echo, lines of poetry recur. All four feel their way through darkness, by hand and memory, and with all the phantom sensuousness that darkness brings. The effect is a little like Borges on a love-potion...