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Word: obvious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this theory, the only person a Harvard student can truly fall in love with is him or herself. The implications for romantic evenings and passionate nights are obvious, if a little unsavory...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Romance at Harvard? Yeah, Right. | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Since the mid-1960s, university campuses have become battlegrounds of rival literary doctrines, all of them united only in a suspicion of the traditionally "obvious" or "natural" explanations of literature. + Impatience with such abstruse and often dogmatic theories has led to an outcry among educational traditionalists for a return to established and proven literary curriculums. Thus it is no surprise that the first wave of letters in reaction to the Harper's article, according to editor Lewis Lapham, has been strongly supportive of Wolfe's call for a return to fictional realism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: Wolfe Among the Pigeons | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...friend of mine who support COCA, who described their activities to me as "guerilla theatre." What exactly this means to COCA I'm not sure, but it is obvious what it has come to mean to me, and to a lot of other people. COCA has done a great disservice to a politically torn country, one which needs sympathetic interest from those with wealth and power. Alienation is not activism...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: COCA-Colonialism | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...obvious that COCA's action breached a central university rule that no student organization may distribute printed material without that material including its own name, and may have violated federal law by forging the signature of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Selective Condemnation | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

DESPITE the obvious populist appeal of the issue, both Kennedy and Carter encountered little enthusiasm among congressional Democrats for limiting the deduction. And when former Senator Gary Hart (D-Col.) proposed cutting the deduction by 30 percent and using the savings to restore Reagan's cuts in the school-lunch program, he found only 30 votes in the Senate...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Wall Street's Food Stamps | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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