Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The school's precipitous rise, and the influx of volatile new ideas on the meaning of architecture, bred a peculiar mixture of worldwide fame--and campus controversy. As the University entered a period of rapid institutional growth, Harvard administrators hesitated to abandon the Georgian Revivalist style of the old Yard...
This all leads me to raise a fundamental question. If the meaning of the Constitution and the laws made under it cannot be arrived at by interpretation, what possible justification can you find under our republican form of government for permitting an unelected group of officials to say what the...
Even cocaine use has evened out. Though some 22 million Americans have felt the euphoric tug of its 20-minute high, the number of "current users" (those who have taken the drug in the past 30 days) has remained constant since 1979, at about 4.3 million. "Drugs come and go...
In the age of the youth rebellion, the fact that parents were shocked by drugs was all the more reason for children to take them. Hollywood and Broadway, ever sensitive to changing mores, romanticized the drug culture with pot-smoking antiheroes in Easy Rider (1969) and let-it-all-hang...
There is a dogged quality to this gentle description, an absolute determination not to let go of the reader before he is made to understand what these infantrymen are enduring. Pyle himself, like the soldiers he covered, was new to war, and only recently rid of the romantic, patriotic belligerence...