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...section leader was aware of this problem from the beginning. But he trusted the class. When he asked us not to look at the solution set before we turned in our homework, we all shook our heads in agreement. He got burned. Obviously, he mistook Harvard for kinder, gentler university...

Author: By John E. Stafford, | Title: Without Honor | 2/22/1994 | See Source »

...Land, a series of drawing-room encounters soured by a barroom aura of impending rough-and- tumble. Like most great playwrights, Pinter keeps writing the same work. No Man's Land is The Homecoming with fancier furniture, Old Times with more recherche recollections, The Birthday Party with a gentler goon squad. It is also, from a playwright generous to actors, the showiest acting duel in his repertoire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Salon as Slaughterhouse | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...name of The Page and consider it a done deal. It can be done much better, and I hope it will be. There's some new blood in here now--a kinder, gentler staff for the '90s, as the bitter, cutthroat staff of the late '80s moves...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: A Desultory Philippic | 1/26/1994 | See Source »

...extension of these thoughts is embodied in the societally-imposed division between how young men and women play with sticks and balls. Baseball for the boys, softball for the kinder, gentler girls...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Toward a More Perfect League | 1/12/1994 | See Source »

...independent Chinese small-business owner, thus funding and nurturing the growth of the nascent middle class in post-Mao China, whose soon-to-be wealthy members, in turn, will spearhead the transformation of the corrupt, market-Leninist, cruel-repressive, authoritarian Chinese state into a free, liberal, shiny-happy, kinder-gentler, just, western-style democratic nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Most Favored Nation. | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

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