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Word: materiallize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are other possibilities for the writers' decline, but he never mentions them--never mentions that like other writers, they might have grown tired or lost their passion for writing, that they might have lost the vitality of youth or that their material had grown stale. So Dardis never really...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Writing Under the Influence in the Roaring Twenties | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Beyond that, Theroux's randy adventurer has a convincing, if not necessarily reassuring, reality of his own. Parent is a droll reminder that nature adores deception. His admission that "in order to be strong I needed to have secrets" sounds no more or no less deceitful than the call of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Free State | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

The cause got a big boost last month with Du Pont's announcement that it would form a joint venture with Waste Management to build the country's largest plastic-recycling operation. The facility, which will open in 1990, will separate and clean 40 million lbs. of the material a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second Life for Styrofoam | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Not, let me insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

All the magazines refer to our generation as material girls and boys, but I always believed that wasn't true here. Undergraduate participation in public service is at one of its highest levels ever. Surely all those people can't be doing it just to pad their resumes.

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: The Wrong Message for a Class Gift | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

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