Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tertiary syphilis in 1883 at the age of 51, Emile Zola and Claude Monet helped carry his coffin to the grave. In life, his milieu had included nearly every French artist of significance, along with writers of the stature of Charles Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé; the latter called him "goat-footed, a virile innocence in beige overcoat, beard and thin blond hair graying with wit." Dressed to the nines, Manet was celebrated as a dandy in that city of dandies, Paris. To read his friends and admirers, you would suppose that he never uttered a pompous word...
...sonorous in Latin and soporific in English. He chooses instead a blank verse Umber enough to accommodate both dignity and verve. Through this medium, Aeneas can be seen again as he must have first appeared to contemporaries, who now just happen to speak English and live in the latter part of the 20th century...
...triple dosage of encouragement, the market in the next ten months set 25 records. It was fueled by an enormous influx of cash held by pension funds and other institutions. Another source: $35 billion from individuals seeking to set up their own Keogh plans and individual retirement accounts, the latter provided under a law opening such benefits to all employees as of January 1982. Much of the IRA money was switched out of bonds and money market funds and into equity mutual funds (see chart). So was a great deal of non-IRA money. As interest rates dropped and private...
Screenwriter John Hunter makes the story of this latter-day Rip Van Winkle strangely touching; anyone struggling to adapt to the technologies of the 1980s is bound to admire his good-humored patience with the ways of the world he nev er made. Director Phillip Borsos has an unpretentious eye for natural beauty and an admirable restraint that forces neither the melodrama nor the elegy. And Richard Farnsworth, the former stuntman who was so fine in Comes a Horseman, gives another splendid performance here. Like the movie, he is slight but sturdy. Film and actor compel one to lean...
...know how many Harvard students have failed to register, let alone how many of these are receiving federal aid Nevertheless, informal polls suggest that a small number of our students fall within the latter category other, who are not required to register, may choose to protest the law by refusing to complete the form required by the Department of Education. As a result, the question arises whether the University should offer students grants or loans to replace any federal and they lose by virtue...