Word: joining
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...State Department's Policy Planning Staff in drafting the initiative, hoped that the Plan would be the first step toward a politically unified continental Europe. He envisioned French leadership of a continental federation, with a reunited and disarmed Germany serving as a buffer between East and West. Britain would join with Canada and the U.S. in an allied but separate political coalition. Eastern European states would be wooed into the neutral continental center, so the tripolar division would stabilize the international system and serve as a buffer in any East-West confrontation...
...after we finally arrived at this old, famous and important place, we wanted, like just about everyone else, to fit in and do well, to be a part of this 350-year-old monolith. We wanted to join The Crimson or The Lampoon, to make the hockey team or the Dins, to learn something in school and write the greatest thesis since Henry Kissinger's gargantuan exploration of Bismarck's foreign policy (yes, everybody still talks about...
Transfers have to deal with institutions before coming to other students need to be concerned. The administration here effectively sets transfer students apart immediately after inviting them to join the Harvard community: With the admissions letter comes the warning that there will be no place on campus for you. At no other college, except perhaps Yale, is the housing system so integral to the undergraduate experience. The University describes in glowing terms the role of the houses in providing the basis for social activities. Everything from eating meals to participating in the numerous house organizations is supposed...
...might therefore join De Palma and Screenwriter David Mamet in a prayer that their epic work -- a masterpiece of idiomatic American moviemaking as well as a plangent commentary on its traditions -- will be spared from the literalists, complaining both that the gore is too real and that the characters are not real enough. Protect them as well from the wrath of the traditionalists, who resist the intrusion of originality on their passion for the endless restatement of stale generic conventions. Deliver them instead to the audience that will be galvanized, as the filmmakers were, by the chance to reimagine...
More gifts, snapshots, and letters from all members of the firm fly back and forth across the Atlantic as Hanfff is welcome into their spiritual family, "the England of English literature," as Hanff writes. A trip to 84 Charing Cross Road will make you want to join as well...