Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ironic that Janet Reno should now set her sights on purging television of violence. Isn't this the woman who brought the nation the televised immolation of the Waco cultists? The third-most qualified woman in America did not see fit to pursue an investigation of the Crown Heights pogrom. Perhaps it is because Reno has been so unsuccessful at combating real violence that she must confine herself to taking on the fictitious sort...
...confining himself to his time abroad, Merrill has fit this "memoir" into the genre of travel-writing; but so many events, so many towns and visits and illnesses and chance meetings, are crowded into Merrill's 271-page year that the real potential of travel-writing as a form--the chance to see an unusual mind as it reacted to other cultures, towns, works of art--is largely lost...
...sorry that The Crimson saw fit to dwell to such an extent on its overblown charges of program mismanagement without giving due recognition to the effective and extremely important teaching that goes on in the Expository Writing program...
...Holyoke Center now, it will not be there in the near future. After 27 years in our present location, we were advised by Harvard Real Estate that they need our space for their retail rentals, and they were not willing to accommodate us in another space that would fit our requirements. However, our agency will not be taken out of the Square as we will move a few short blocks west into a more dignified location at 150 Mount Auburn Street. Our very experienced, professional agents will continue to serve our established clientele, as they have for the past...
...specific example, the patriarchal system within Chinese society and the Chinese-American community has ended men, exactly like those depicted in The Joy Luck Club (I, too can invoke personal acquaintances, but unlike Soong, I see many men who fit those descriptions precisely). On a very simple-minded level, anyone who has been to a Chinese family gathering and observed who does all the cooking, serving and cleaning-up will know exactly what I mean...