Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess because high school textbooks stink. Also, we are constantly told + that American students are even stupider than we thought. So I'm just dumping on the whole idea that we need to make our kids smarter, by putting out a book that will clearly not do that...
...fact, I came to Harvard Summer School a Republican and left a Democrat. I guess I'm a walking parody of President Bush's worst fears about the transforming power of Harvard's liberal boutique...
...drama is dilemma -- the fight not to do something. A dilemma is wanting to kiss a woman and not doing it. Once you do it, it's 'action.' Action is fine. I understand what it's about. But you have to understand where it comes from." And you can guess where the kissing dilemma came from. Kevin, only 5 ft. 2 in. as a high school sophomore, was shy about meeting girls; he claims he never dated...
...Guess again. The blond (Joan Jeanrenaud) is a cellist by craft, and the longhair (Hank Dutt) plays, appropriately, the viola. Along with violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, they form the Kronos Quartet, the nation's most adventurous chamber-music ensemble. No Haydn or Mozart for this earnest foursome. Works by Charles Ives and Anton Webern are probably the creakiest items in their wide, of-today repertoire. It ranges from Steve Reich's Different Trains, in which synthesized voices, recorded railroad sounds and minimalist arpeggios are combined in a haunting memoir, to a growling, down- and-dirty setting of Jimi...
...prefers the chemists' word stabilized, saying, "I think that I stabilize him. I hope my presence makes him comfortable." Chang describes his calm manner on and off the court as a residue of his Christian faith, though he does not dispute those who detect some Oriental mystery. "I guess that could be appropriate. I am a quiet person and do not show much emotion. My hobby is fishing, and fishing is very tranquil...