Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite Harvard's flaws, there is always one feature of this place that will not fail to warm your heart. Those glass flowers are amazing...
Interpretations and definitions of what "postmodern culture" actually is never fail to fascinate. Yet this fascination is always partially spoiled by the fact that success-a definitive 'take' on postmodernity-is a logical impossibility. How, to put it simply, it is possible to reach a final interpretation of a cultural phenomenon which has itself prompted a questioning of the validity of all authorities-which has devalued all final interpretations...
Tragically, this is not always the case. Some authors fail to impress in person. Others perform satisfactorily in this respect. The scrumptious Ethan Canin, for example, unfailingly attracts hordes of female fans to readings-a small fact which does not escape his publisher...
...likely that at some point along the way, the Serbs will fail to comply with NATO demands. At that point, air strikes will be necessary. The only thing that made the Serbs pull back from Sarajevo was the belief that this NATO would follow through. To fail to do so would undercut the credibility NATO recently generated for itself...
Students say these qualities are just what they often fail to find in their other TFs. In a Faculty which does not train its section leaders in the art of teaching, the excellent ones stand...