Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Missing from the letter is mention of the Faculty's sharp criticisms of the Central Administration over benefits reductions. Gone is any mention of the media circuses that surrounded the Gina Grant affair, the murder-suicide in Dunster House, or even the president's own leave for exhaustion...
Still, Rudenstine reflects on the university's budget difficulties only to speak in terms of "Harvard's vigorous commitment to containing costs," which has been assisted through "the perspectives and counsel of an advisory committee including senior administrators. There is little mention of the ongoing acrimony that these cost-cutting measures have entailed...
...path. In Fort Walton Beach, which caught both hurricanes, a defiant banner still flies above a popular restaurant called the Sound. It's a relic of the last storm that reads WE'RE OPEN ANYWAY, ERIN. But now the Sound is full of broken glass and water, not to mention two large stranded motor yachts. The restaurant--like much of the Emerald Coast--appears to be closed for the season...
...writers of the past decade, it is a tendency to define characters not necessarily by their histories or heartaches or small triumphs but, more economically, as a sum of their pop-cultural tastes. Want to show that someone is vacuous? Put him in Gucci loafers. Want to convey sophistication? Mention a character's love of Godard. Want to suggest that a person has developed unrealistic notions of familial closeness? Have her reminisce about watching The Brady Bunch...
...Robert K. Massie points out in The Romanovs: The Final Chapter (Random House; 320 pages; $25), the imperial family's murder was only one horrifying moment in an unfinished saga. Shortly after officials in Moscow announced that the Czar had been shot (there was no immediate mention of his family), rumors arose that some or even all of the royals had managed to escape. In the 1920s, Europe and America were almost awash with fraudulent Romanov wannabes, several of them demanding access to a huge fortune that Nicholas had allegedly secreted abroad...