Word: facet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...element of paranoia here is an integral facet of Scientology consciousness. We have the answer. They're trying to suppress us. (Anyone opposed to Scientology is a Suppressive Person.) L. Ron Hubbard's breakthroughs in the field of electronic wave theory must be kept secret, for once the vital wave lengths of the Thetans are known, any despot could jam the signal, so to speak...
...ghetto humor is basically ethnic. U.S. minorities have traditionally preserved their identities by laughing at their origins. Cosby's North Philadelphia is as rich in ethnic grist as Manhattan's Lower East Side was for a generation of Jewish comedians. Consciously or not, there is a deeper facet of Negro heritage in Cosby: his penchant for outrageous hyperbole. When one of his TV pupils asks "Chet Kincaid" (Cosby) why he must take gym, he hears: " 'Cause you got to get in shape, man, in case the enemy comes and captures us and makes us march to Seattle...
...faculty reportedly reviewed in meticulous detail every facet of Pilkington's case, from the Ad Board's procedures and evidence to the possible effects of the suspension on Pilkington's career...
...last contest, much of the responsibility for containing Schwartzkopf will fall to captain Ernie Hardy. This individual match-up has an added facet since Harly only trails the Curnell center by ten rebounds for the Ivy League rebounding lead...
...long past the writing of wry love poems like "Lullaby." Perhaps more important, nowhere in this collection does he achieve the delicately blended wit and civilized humanity of "In Praise of Limestone," which may be his most beautiful and enduring shorter poem. Yet almost every other level and facet of Auden is present...