Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Course Catalog: The most entertaining work of fiction produced by this university. All of the classes in brackets (that is, at least half of them) are classes that professors imagine that they will want to teach next year when they return from their leaves of absence. But next year is a long way away. By next year, they will have decided only to teach a 15-person seminar for graduate students. so that they will have enough time to write their books (see above). Every year undergraduates play along with the professors by filing a Plan of Study, which...
...quoted remarks of Michael Turk, let it be noted initially that he and I disagree on just about everything. What I find most disturbing in his remarks is his determination to replace fact with fiction when he said, "It's very disquieting to see instances of public officials providing favors, particularly financial ones." Does he know something I don't? Often times, people predicate of others activities similar in nature to activities in which the speaker or writer is a participant. Is this what underlies and rests at the root of Mr. Turk's statement that "...questions of appearance...
...WHITE SEASON. A white liberal turns radical after confronting the brutality of South African racism. Hard-edged drama that couples the pulse of popular fiction with the jolt of moral outrage...
...program until one month before the spill: "There weren't enough resources to do the job right. I was stretched pretty thin." After the accident, environment commissioner Kelso was quick to brand the industry's previously filed oil-spill contingency plan "the greatest piece of maritime fiction since Moby Dick." But he had approved the document...
Humbug, responds Dr. Meaden. "Those who like to fantasize that something from outer space is responsible can be excluded," he insists. "What does cause these circles is better than fiction." But with or without government research funding, it may be a while before students of the phantasmagoria come up with a totally convincing explanation. Indeed, some suspect that researchers and the locals may enjoy their novel oddity so much that another ring is more interesting than a conclusive answer...