Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House is privately furious at how NATO commander General Wesley Clark first handled reports that one of his jets had mistakenly attacked a refugee convoy last week. Within hours of the Wednesday strike, which may have killed more than 70 ethnic Albanians, Clark told a news service he had "strong evidence" that Serb forces had fired at the refugee column. By the next day, embarrassed NATO officials admitted that their first claim was wrong and that an American F-16 had indeed attacked civilians. NATO tried to recover, releasing an audiotape of an F-16 pilot who may have...
...program featured a wide-mix of dance and music styles, giving even the most dance-illiterate audience member a general idea of the broad scope and long tradition of dance. "Pas de Quartre," the first piece on the program, spotlighted a lovely quartet of rose-bedecked ballerinas drenched in amber light and shimmering in pale pink tutus. To the lilting, romantic strains of Cesare Pugni's 18th century composition, four renowned (and infamously conceited) ballerinas of the past were recreated in all their beauty and gracious snobbery on the stage by four equally-beautiful Harvard undergraduate ballerinas. On Saturday night...
...tendency to start out shooting for the top is indicative of the general attitude among Harvard students in general. Pre-meds dream of becoming surgeons although it is family practitioners that are needed most. Others want to become the next Bill Gates, instead of that high school teacher who dramatically changed the way they thought about the world...
Someone has taped a lime-green slip of paper to the door of my New Quincy suite, redeemable for one does of nostalgia, annoyance or general indifference, depending on one's mood. The paper is, of course, a schedule of Senior Bar events for the month of April, those much-hyped occasions when the class of '99 descends en masse upon a local bar or generously provisioned common room in search of drinks and chatter...
...were lucky on this particular occasion, because we knew the party hosts--which definitely makes a difference in party etiquette. In general, I try to follow the "two degrees of separation rule": if I know the people throwing the party or I know someone who does, then my friends and I can come on the scene with confidence...