Word: exactement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...casual readers to be a valuable piece of scholarship. Many of its thoughts on political moderation are shrewd and timely, but a sensational tone exhibits them to poor advantage. For the Messrs. Catton, as for Lincoln and Douglas in the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign, it appears that "exact historical accuracy was less important than an appealing argument...
...Magic Barrel, which won the National Book Award in 1959, Malamud has been recognized as a unique voice in U.S. literature. He catches his vulnerable characters in lurid movement and mid-passion-as if frozen in the light of a signal flare. His ear for Jewish idiom is unfailingly exact. ("We didn't starve, but nobody ate chicken unless we were sick or the chicken was.") But the very quality that makes him an original talent-his feeling for the expressive, flaringly emotional reaches of the Jewish temperament-sometimes leads him astray, causing him to inject into a purely...
According to Cooper and the course's head, Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government, the department still did not know the exact source of the leak, but was not planning an investigation. "An investigation," said McCloskey, "would involve the type of detective work that doesn't belong in an academic setting...
...Harvard soccer team this morning started off the weekend's athletics on the right foot--on the right foot of sophomore Morgan Hudson, to be exact. At 2:45 of the second overtime, Hudson took a pass from Chris Ohiri, found an opening, and drilled a shot that grazed the cross bar and dropped inside the goal...
...heart resumed its job of pumping blood to her body. But now she had a more total transposition than the one that nature had inflicted upon her. All her used, deoxygenated blood flowed through the left side of her heart, and her reoxygenated blood through the right-the exact reverse of normal, but almost as effective...