Word: norms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forget that the lad is isolated, unaware of his origin and his destiny--and aware that he is unaware. He places his palm against Kala's paw (hands are a major motif in the film) and knows that his mother is different; or, rather, she is the norm, and he the outsider. Africa is his metaphor: the lost continent is his identity. Always he asks, Who or what am I? Where do I belong...
...very much a place where you have to make your own happiness," says one third-year law student who asked not to be identified. Although she herself is happy at the school, the student says a similar sense of contentedness is "almost definitely not the norm" among her law school colleagues...
...looked at the health issues with an eye toward not only what we needed to do today, but also what we needed to do for the long-term," Durham says. "He created an environment in which it was the norm to look at things from a broader perspective...
During this time enrollment at Harvard, after sinking to a wartime low, skyrocketed to almost double the prewar norm in the late 1940s. Veterans flooded the campus, making up over half of the Class...
...increase in enrollment due to the GI Billin the late 1940s marked a permanent shift inHarvard admissions. The pre-war norm of 3,500 wasforever discarded and enrollment consistentlyremained above...