Word: endpoints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roth has always examined the perverse. For those who have followed Roth's heroes from dysfunctional adolescence, Mickey Sabbath is the logical endpoint: a cruel, brilliant, hormonal misanthrope, heartless and soulful. By now, dysfunction seems too kind a word to describe the protagonist's modus operandi. What we have here is malfunction...
...afraid that there may be no endpoint to where we separate people. It seems that every time we find a bonding point, we are naturally inclined to also find a dividing point, a point where we can be separated from the next person. Self-identification and individualism are extremely important, vital factors to a healthy individual, but we seem to have lost the pure definitions of these words and exaggerated the limits. If this is our attempt at uniting the student body, we should stop and take a look at how divided the students body has already become...
...inception, the first movement takes the form of a large crescendo made of several building sequences. Each sequence in this Animato, ma serioso begins thinly and eventually stops, giving way to another one with a greater endpoint. The music itself shimmers and sparkles with the addition of a harpsichord and celeste, though its edges are not completely smooth...
...know whether this is normal: at least it seems to be the endpoint of a grand, grand history of humanity's greatest emotion. And one thing you learn about in this country is fear. You collect and nurse it, and unwillingly let it infect everything...
...hope is that we'll come up with an evolutionary strategy that [has an environmental studies concentration] as a possible endpoint," Branscomb said...