Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great way to get students aware of the situation...[and] the sense of desperation within the Asian community," he said...
...found in the end that the two progressive campaigns--Plants and Wikler, and Driskell and Burton--both showed a great deal of support for the issues we discussed," wrote the BGLTSA executive board in an e-mail message to its members. "In the end, however, we decided that a split endorsement would present the candidates who best represented the needs of the BGLT community and its supporters...
...first issue of Crimson Arts this semester featured a trio of messianic Backstreet Boys descending from the rafters on space-age surfboards. The surfboards may have been props, but they recalled a more innocent time when surfboards were real and America's first great boy band, the Beach Boys, rode them...
...Furthermore, this inheritance is not limited at all to Belle and Sebastian, for a great deal of current indie rock is mellow, child-like and backward-looking. And most such bands are aware of their forerunners. If you can't hear the Beach Boys in everything from ber-hip Elephant 6 (Beulah, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples in Stereo), then you need look no further than their official press releases...
...great thing about Gordimers fiction has always been her success in stripping away the layers of pretense and denial and dishonesty that are built up around contemporary lives and societies. She shows the reader universal truths that are nonetheless elusive: her talent is to unveil revelation. In the nonfiction in this volume, it is Gordimers practice to reveal truths that are painfully obvious to most anybody. The subtitle of the volume is Notes from Our Century, and Gordimer makes a case study of historical progress out of her native South Africa, taking us from the world of apartheid through redemption...