Word: ets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group discussed "the Soviet experts' view of the Soviet Union, the current status there, some recommendations on how the President can present his views, what the expected responses are, what the Soviet mentality is in dealing with U.S.-Soviet relations, et cetera," presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said at a press conference yesterday...
...Brought to life by Knussen's witty score, which slyly quotes from composers as disparate as Mussorgsky and Debussy, they may be the most engaging anthropomorphs to appear on the operatic stage since Maurice Ravel breathed life into a Chinese cup, a cat and a tree in L'Enfant et les Sortileges, the 1925 prototype for Wild Things...
...theme of the irresponsibility of these elites runs throughout all of the informed sociological and cultural commentary on Afro-American life. In the work of Frazier, Cayton, Drake, Bunche, et al., this theme is consistently pressed. In the serious literature which analyzes the organizational revolution of black urban social structure and its stratification system, the opportunistic behavioral patterns of this class is presented as a defining characteristic of the group. W.E.B. DuBois, for example, noted in an 1899 sociological study of the black community in Philedelphia, that the local elites were in general politically and intellectually bankrupt. They were...
...irony in this. Their prominence, in view of the quality of the analysis, seems to belie the very existence of the mysterious meritocracy which they purport to endorse. There is an unmysterious reason for this. The empirical and historical work of Bourdieu, Jenks, Bowles, Edwards and Karabel, et al, demonstrate that educational and occupational advances are largely, although not exclusively, determined by the structural needs and inequities of the system. Loury, Keys and Co. seem to empirically validate the conclusions of the aforementioned intellectuals. For without any analytis of scholarly contribution of intellectual depth or originality to the important social...
...branches that by movie's end, there is no resolution of plot or character--no perfect ending to be revealed by some bad movie critic. The minor miracle at film's end is merely the impossible cap to an implausible development of character and situation, something only a cute ET could pull...