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Word: hear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...devoted Harry Potter fans have learned, knowing a magic charm is not the same thing as performing magic. Rowling's secret is as simple and mysterious as her uncanny ability to nourish the human hunger for enchantment: she knows how to feed the desire not just to hear or read a story but to live it as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild About Harry Potter | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...getting noticed. TV has fed the teen beast before, but these programs now enjoy cultural prominence, with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawson's Creek becoming emblems of post-feminist girlhood, sex, violence, name your issue, in a way that Saved by the Bell never did. Today you hardly hear the word teen without angst following, but what these series display is adult angst with perkier buns and better clothes, grownups positing kids as canaries in the societal coal mine. Whither the world of tomorrow? these shows ask. And what designers will it wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Their Major Is Alienation | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...didn't realize what the topic of the discussion was going to be," said Grace E. Fu '03. "But it was very interesting to hear her relate so many different things. She's very well-read...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In a Year of Merger, Dunn Discusses Transition | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...executive director of a New York non-profit, McGruder says many of the white people he encounters do not expect to hear that he is a Harvard graduate...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Outside HAA, A New Network Thrives | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...woman who has worked in corporate America for 25 years, and I know that as much as I have been successful, that the playing field is not level. And the playing field is not level in the classrooms at Harvard, and I know people don't always like to hear that...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Alumnae Skeptical Of Final Deal | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

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