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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rather than scales or fingering -- makes the work the richest yet of dramatist August Wilson, whose first three Broadway efforts, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, each won the New York Drama Critics Circle prize as best play of the year. The fact that producers are not shoving each other in haste to bring Piano Lesson to Broadway, especially in a season when the Tony Awards are likely to be given to mediocrities by default, underscores the all but defunct place of serious drama in our commercial theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Ghostly Past, in Ragtime | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), the state agency charged with investigating the merits of discrimination complaints, has been thought to be nearing a decision on the legality of the nine all-male final clubs for months now. In fact, a final ruling could be made as far as a year from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five things that have been coming "next month" for the last semester: | 1/27/1989 | See Source »

...ceremonies would not be rained out, snow that SASC members had covertly prevented from falling all winter is unleashed upon the crowd. SASC said the chill in University attitudes toward divestment inspired this protest strategy, though a small faction of SASC members declines to participate due to the fact that all of the snow is white. Barbara Bush nevertheless gives an impassioned Commencement address about "A Thousand Point Spread" in the next Harvard-Yale Game, due to her husband's refusal to set foot in "that liberal boutique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Remains of 1989 | 1/27/1989 | See Source »

...rich get richer," Taylor said. "The fact that Harvard is 15-0 and we're 4-7, that they're first in the ECAC and we're eighth, is important to a recruit...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Yale Icemen Paint Dreams in Realistic Colors | 1/27/1989 | See Source »

...fact, the leaps that have been made have not been made by humanists, but by scientists. More and more behavior is being traced to biological causes. Above all, we need doctors and researchers to work in the hospitals and laboratories, to make observations and conduct experiments, to combat AIDS, ozone, cancer and attrition...

Author: By Albert Y. Hsia, | Title: Scared Off by Science | 1/25/1989 | See Source »

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