Word: larger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abominable opinion cannot be excused, yet Eliot has defenders who find the issue regrettable but overblown. British Poet D.J. Enright notes, "A friend of mine made the best observation: 'But good Lord, he did not like anybody.' " Critic Alfred Kazin seems inclined to set Eliot's lapses in a larger context: "As a writer of Jewish background, if I had to ignore all the great writers who made anti-Semitic comments, I'd have nothing to read...
Giamatti obviously means every word of this, but he is hardly the passive, pliable, accommodating technocrat that his self-description portrays. In truth, he has never abandoned teaching; he has moved his impressive pedagogical skills from the classroom into progressively larger arenas. Bart holds certain truths to be self-evident. Chief among these is his unfashionable conviction that individualism must cease when it threatens the legitimate, shared concerns of community. This belief is not a late-blooming flower of incipient dotage. As a fledgling professor during the 1960s, Giamatti bore the plumage of the counterculture. His clothes were rumpled...
...Sending money to South Africa is difficult unless the group is directed by the government itself," Campbell said. "My own view is that Harvard should extend larger and more scholarships to South African students...
...watershed contains the southern slopes of the Himalayas in northern India, Nepal and Bhutan, where the hillsides have been ravaged by deforestation. With the denuded soil no longer able to absorb monsoon rains, the savage runoff increases year by year in speed and volume, bringing with it ever larger loads of silt that end up on the river bottoms of Bangladesh...
...larger implications of such media diplomacy may be a bit scary, but the TV show it has helped create promises to be a stunner. Despite the 14-hour time difference between Seoul and New York City, fully three-quarters of NBC's planned 179 1/2 hours of coverage over the next fortnight will be live. When the telecasts begin each weekday at 7 a.m. EDT, it will be 9 p.m. in Seoul, the peak of the evening competition. When evening coverage starts, at 7:30 EDT, it will be 9:30 a.m. in Seoul, just as the daytime events...