Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since graduation. Come bill time, however, we find ourselves sending partial payments as a stalling tactic. To avoid the high cost of day care-an expense our combined earnings couldn't begin to cover-we work opposite shifts. Our parents have even taken over our car payments. We often marvel at the fact that two well-educated white-collar workers like ourselves are worse off financially than most of our less-schooled, blue-collar neighbors. ANA M. WAGNER-HOFFMAN Germantown, Maryland Via America Online...
...victim of a dark-skinned stranger. But the cries for the death penalty, if not entirely silenced, have quieted. And instead of remaining amazed that a 23-year-old woman, to all outward appearances a loving mother, could harbor such profound unhappiness or anger, the people of Union now marvel that their quiet town could have been the scene of so many tawdry and desperate entanglements...
...call it Alice in Wonderland through a smoky looking glass. The play asks us, as Alice does, to marvel at the cornucopian richness of a child's imagination. In this case, however, the cornucopia is a devil's horn. She doesn't realize it, but Emma in her nocturnal wanderings has been rooting in a graveyard. Twelve Dreams is grim and gorgeous...
...says. "It holds the attention firmly, because there is always something new to learn, new discoveries to make." People who want a garden because the neighbor has one and hire someone else to install it may gradually be smitten by what's out there, want to know more, marvel at the changes each morning in the drape of a vine or the paths of the bees. Soon they will no longer have a garden; their gardens will have them...
...realize that it might seem insensitive and somehow immoral to question the University, especially on this sacred day. And, in general, we are well aware that committed administrators are just carrying out an important moral crusade. Shouldn't we stand back and marvel at their ethical commitment, as they extend control over every aspect of students' lives? When the administration is good, students who criticize them must be...bad...or perhaps, even worse, ignorant...