Word: interest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stroke, Mr. Lamont's interest in and care for the library will eliminate the single most persistent irritant in the lives of hundreds of students," Cole told the Alumni Bulletin at the time...
...Amazingly enough in the age of electronics, more and more people are voicing an interest in the library as a place," she says...
...often that a Supreme Court decision prompts an after-school discussion between my fourth-grader and me. But last week the court ruled that schools are obligated to protect students from aggressive sexual harassment, and suddenly my daughter and I were talking jurisprudence. Our interest in the case of Davis v. Monroe County School Board was sparked by the story of the plaintiff, LaShonda Davis, a fifth-grader who was repeatedly groped and propositioned by a boy in her class...
Enter England's Alfred Deller, who, starting in the mid-1940s, singlehandedly revived countertenor singing. Deller inspired Benjamin Britten to write the first countertenor role in a 20th century opera, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other singers began emulating Deller, and as the revival of interest in baroque opera picked up steam in the '70s, countertenors became popular once more...
That's still a fraction of America's 50 million Catholics. But partly in response to Gen-X interest, the Atlanta Archdiocese created a separate parish this spring for the Priestly Society of St. Peter, clerics who celebrate only the most traditional and elaborate style of Latin Mass, the 16th century Tridentine. In Chicago, parishioners like Paul Recchia, 29, who says the pop excesses of the modern Mass "disturbed me," have opted for the Tridentine at the ornate St. John Cantius Catholic Church--where half the weddings are now done in that fashion...