Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some participants in the meeting, who asked not to be quoted directly, said they felt this lack of direct responsibility to students meant the committee had little incentive to respect the ideas or opinions of residents who were not active committee participants...
...which it was. Then the pause ended, there was a roar ("like it exhaled"), and Bernich's house imploded. The utility room and its inhabitants, however, survived. "We feel blessed," said Bernich. And so did many. In the wake of one of the country's worst tornado disasters, "blessed" meant losing all you owned but escaping with your loved ones and your life...
...know so much in this first chapter--and not because of the prerelease hype. We know that plucky Anakin will grow up to be Darth Vader, so the crepe of Fate hangs over his ascendancy. We are meant to root for the boy when he finds himself in a plane cockpit during the climactic battle (he could be a kid sneaking a drive in his dad's Lamborghini), yet we know that the budding hero will later be a super-villain, as if Aladdin were to grow up to be Jafar...
After the announcement earlier this year that students would receive more financial aid, not being able to benefit from the Pell Grant increase comes as a slap in the face. Why should the University pocket money meant to go to students? Silly Harvard, financial aid is for kids, not endowments...
...themes from dozens of sources. But while I attempted to make a comparison of Williams' use of so many different sources to that of Milton's insertion of classical references in Paradise Lost, it occurred to me that both of us were missing the point: these soundtracks weren't meant to be, as my friend stated, "the outward expression of the artists themselves." They were just soundtracks to films. Would a typical soundtrack of pop or rock songs be preferable to Williams' work in a film like Raiders of the Lost Ark? Of course not. But more than that, Williams...