Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cooperson is fascinated by the eccentricities of each culture's language, as well as the foreign personalities. In Hawaiian, he says, there's no difference between nouns and verbs. So, for instance, the word for "chair" and the word for "sit" would be the same. In Arabic countries, time is...
Pop open the champagne. Lines like this, no matter how heartfelt, become exhausting after a while and beg to be parodied. Still, Leavitt, like Philip, must be taken with a grain of salt. Both 25-year-olds need time to mature, to stop pandering for approval. But they also have...
Meaning that the booters--who still have a regular-season match-up with the Leis on tap--will be jumping into post-season play before the post season theoretically arrives.
IT IS IN THIS CONTEXT that the movement for corporate disinvestment from South Africa takes on real meaning. A successful campaign by which the major corporations--oil, auto, electronics, computers, etc.--were to economically disengage from South Africa would, at the very least, represent a severe undermining of the credibility...
Why does Frances put up with this? Although she often shows real gumption, she considers herself one of life's supporting players. "Creative people pay a heavy price" is Frances' belief, and as editor and lover, she "had put herself in the service of such people. Perhaps she had done...