Word: onsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biologist, or of Monica Monica who plays the harmonica? It could be anyone, of any moniker, who works in obscurity and creates something whose importance is not visible at sea level. The story of the year, 1859: Would that be John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and the onset of the American Civil War, or Darwin's Origin of Species...
Harvard, it seems, is very happy about winter. House common spaces all over campus are adorned with festive "winter" decorations. House dining halls are playing host to "winter" feasts. House committees are organizing "winter" caroling. I, for one, am confused. Since when is the onset of short, dreary, cold days, and downright frigid nights, a cause for rejoicing? In short, who are we kidding...
...candor and sensitivity, Sullivan is remarkably honest as he recounts how he never found true love in a relationship, quenched his loneliness with promiscuous affairs and used friendship as the one predictable source of support and spirituality. Friendship, in fact, forms a main artery of the book. After the onset of AIDS symptoms and the cavernous despair that ensued, Sullivan cites the strength of his friendships as providing his only scaffold of hope. But not even friendship was immune to the epidemic. As AIDS infiltrated the gay community with the stealth and fury of a plague, Sullivan buried some...
...focuses on children's learning at the onset of schooling and childhood amnesia--the limited recall that people have of the first six to eight years of their lives. In addition, he explores how social institutions for children are or are not fitted to their needs...
...becomes simply part of the political background as life goes on," says Love. "People are getting sick of the issue -- a majority of Chileans believe Pinochet is guilty, but they are also telling pollsters that the issue doesn't affect them." The one thing that could disrupt the onset of calm, of course, would be the general's return home. That would force Chileans to decide his fate themselves...