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Word: likes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center, I have a lot more leeway," said Vukonich, who notched his fifth goal since moving to the middle. "At wing, I felt like I was forced to play one way. I'm much more comfortable at this position...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Pull Out Second Win; Turn Back Dartmouth, 4-2 | 11/28/1989 | See Source »

...really, do not like the idea of writing this letter in defense of the Germans as a people. In fact, there are a lot of things I strongly dislike about some Germans, just as I disagree with many other people. But since Cooper attacked the Germans as a people, and, by implication, me personally, I feel I had to respond and claim that the Germans as a whole are not essentially different from other people. Rather than making wholesale accusations, it would be more constructive to address specific issues arising from the rapid changes now taking place in Eastern Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thoughts on Reunification | 11/28/1989 | See Source »

Thanksgiving, like Ambassadors, Cabinet officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why We've Failed to Ruin Thanksgiving | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...Wolfe's jeremiad, the "puppet-masters" of the American literary scene imported a new pantheon of foreign literary gods -- Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The "headlong rush" to get rid of realism, Wolfe complains, resulted in statements like that of experimental novelist John Hawkes, "I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: Wolfe Among the Pigeons | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...literature as truly a smorgasbord. I wouldn't want a world in which there were only Balzac and Zola and not Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka. The idea that because we live in a large and varied country we therefore ought to write the sweeping, panoramic novel is like arguing that our poets all ought to be like Walt Whitman rather than Emily Dickinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: Wolfe Among the Pigeons | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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