Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really tell me anything about what my experience at Harvard would be like, and (2) I had no alternative but to make my decision based upon this weekend. Up until this point I had been hoping for a striking epiphany that would reveal to me the place I was meant to be--a quasi-religious recognition of 'home' in the Yard. Now it seemed clear that I would have to find some alternate criterion...
...FIFTEEN MINUTES" IS A RELIC OF THE early '90s. The magazine title--chosen because it was "pop culturey"--was meant to say goodbye to The Crimson's old magazine, "What Is To Be Done" and hello to something different, something new, something Andy Warhol might approve...
Someone had meant for us to see the game that night...
...Peter, and upon this Rock I will build my church," Jesus said to St. Peter. Though Christians disagree on what Jesus meant, to Catholics it is clear that at that moment Christ formed the holy Church which has continued for 20 centuries. The Catholic Church is built upon sacred scripture and tradition, helping breathe life into the worlds of faith and action alike. Today, it is led by Pope John Paul II, whose most recent encyclical, "Fides ed Ratio" (faith and reason), speaks clearly to the rapidly accelerating pace of information transfer and change that "can leave especially the younger...
Earlier this year came Melissa Roth's On the Loose, a sort of slapdash anthropology of real-life dating women on both coasts. The book was meant to show that not every woman is marriage hungry, that singledom can amount to a grand old time in its own right. Recent months have also brought three books by conservative social critics, notably Wendy Shalit, arguing that no, professional pursuit and sexual gallivanting aren't good for women at all. In fact, such endeavors leave women flummoxed, dissatisfied and dead--if not in a literal Looking for Mr. Goodbar sense, then...