Word: heartening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like. Many people had good reason to be frustrated, but progress did not always require violent events. The St. Augustine-Jesuit game paved the way for officially integrated competition in 1967. Because of Verrett and Grant, New Orleans finally got a real city championship. St. Augustine's success should hearten people who face inequality today by reminding them how much progress has been made since...
...hilarious in the hands of first-time novelist Laura Zigman, whose Animal Husbandry, a naughty vivisection of male dating rituals, should do for dumped girlfriends what Olivia Goldsmith's The First Wives Club and Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil did for dumped wives: hearten, console, viciously amuse. It has already been optioned for a movie...
Here's a news summary that will hearten all those fearing an onset of O.J. withdrawal...
...light-starved days of winter encroach on Boston, people yearn for a few glimmers of hope and brightness to illuminate the bleak season looming ahead. They seek an infusion of optimism and beauty to hearten themselves for the icy, dreary months approaching. Such an aesthetic jolt can be found at the invigorating weekly series of Bach cantatas performed at Emmanuel Church in Boston...
...should not be changed without extensive student representation. Letters from students about changes are one thing, but listening to them in person is quite another. Last year's rejection of a proposal to make History 10a and 10b: "Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures" part of the Core does not hearten us on that front; neither does the fact that a Core reform petition signed by more than 4,000 undergraduates has received little attention...