Word: often
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another level, Erwitt's work often depicts connections, some obvious and others apparent only on close inspection. A photograph in Kyoto, Japan in 1977, for example, illustrates a parallelism between people and animals. It depicts a woman scratching her back as a dog does the same. In a 1975 photograph taken at Daytona Beach, Florida, the connection is not so obvious. Erwitt juxtaposes shapes to create compositions that are not readily apparent as real objects. However, detailed study of the photograph reveals a subtle relationship between the shape of apartment facades and a bird perched upon a street lamp...
...Harvard locker room parlance, 'defense' usually refers to U.S. capabilities vis-a-vis NATO, 'formations' often are those of molecules and 'Big Red' is the people's Republic of China. But we try to keep familiar with all the definitions to keep the coaches happy."--Harvard defensive tackle Jim Bell discussing the football team's plays...
...week later, the phone lines in our six-room entry underwent unification. Whenever someone in the entry was called, every telephone rang in synchronized unison. All of us simply had one big phone line. (Our answering machine often took garbled messages for the women upstairs, but only after three respectful rings.) Thankfully, we were cured of this after two weeks...
...Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language Helen H. Vendler adds that, while departments often do consider University service, senior faculty are really the overburdened workers in the community...
...many junior professors the issue is where to find more time for scholarship. If the University grants them an additional semester of paid leave time--they currently get one semester--many say that could make the difference for completing the second book, which often determines tenure in the humanities and social sciences...