Word: fall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...construction of biography is itself an art form, Wilde's assertion poses a problem for biographers: do you place more emphasis on the life of the subject, or on the artistic value of the biography itself? One of the most controversial and talked about biographies released this fall was Edmund Morris' Dutch, a biography of former president Ronald Reagan that grappled with just this question. By including a fictional character in the midst of his otherwise serious biography, Morris caused an uproar over the standards of factual and historical accuracy in the literary world while asserting his belief...
...seeking out high achievers in academics, athletics, music and other activities, Harvard annually yields a crop of first-years ready to take on everything, not hesitating to put their names on every list at the fall activity fair...
...friends, especially with their academics, get so overwhelmed they can't break out of it," she says. "I've seen people that have done one activity for a very long time, leave and then have nothing to fall back...
...Most students begin the fall semester with a sense of hope and enthusiasm," Ducey adds. "It is around the time of 'hourlies' or midterms that students may begin to experience the uneasy sense that things are going badly wrong...
...time of Thanksgiving, when students often face the sometimes less-than-desirable prospect of going home for the holidays, the phenomena of burnout begin to become manifest," Ducey says. "The weeks between Thanksgiving and the winter holidays are often the most critical period for students' recognition that their fall semester feels dangerously out of control...