Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It is only natural to feel nostalgic about the events of one's youth, but somehow I don't think members of my generation will get misty-eyed nothing the 20th anniversary of, say, the Shuttle explosion or the Live Aid concert.
However, Casale and Lerman are utterly unconvincing in supporting their thesis. Their attempt amounts to nothing more than another salve applied to the sore consciences of the jaded children of the '60s.
When I first heard Leland speak in 1984 to a student group, nothing came across so much as that he cared. He really cared. In the middle of the Reagan Revolution, he tried to convey to a bunch of upper-middle class kids the importance of working for others, those...
It seems pretty obvious that in any discussion of the various methods whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but...
In contrast to most American dramatists, who have excelled at depicting the struggles of home and hearth but not the larger world, Hwang thinks more shrewdly about mankind than about individual men and women. He has the steel- trap analytic grasp of the champion scholastic debater he once was, the...