Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOME Harvard students and faculty would do well to learn this lesson. At the beginning of every school year, the Crimson Key Society shows Love Story to first-year students in Rocky-Horror fashion with Crimson Key members yelling out dozens of dark jokes...
...Soviet lawmakers, it was a unique lesson in the art of compromise. President Mikhail Gorbachev, who supported the emergency-powers proposal, had * opened the session with an emotional address, telling the legislature that work stoppages are "holding our reforms by the throat." What followed was an often fiery, unprecedented debate as politicians clashed over the need for such draconian measures. At one point, Gorbachev yelled at the unruly Deputies, "We're not in a stadium! We're in the Supreme Soviet...
...German Democratic Republic celebrates its 40th anniversary, thousands of its citizens ride the freedom train to the West. -- Taking a lesson in democracy, Soviet legislators reduce the scope of a sweeping plan to ban all strikes...
...HAVEN--The game that was supposed to keep the Harvard men's soccer team in the thick of the Ivy League race and a treasured NCAA tournament bid turned into a lesson on the principles of exhaustion...
Velazquez's maturity is a sublime, intensive lesson in pictorial coding, and this, as much as anything else, has been the source of its fascination to other painters. In rendering appearances, every artist has a code of some sort -- a way in which the licks and smears of colored mud on cloth manage, seemingly without intervention from the viewer, to recompose themselves as hard shiny metal, warm flesh, wind-ruffled grass or the sweaty sheen of a horse's flank, all in the blink of an eye. But no artist seems as explicit about this legerdemain as Velazquez...