Word: overshadowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goodman becomes a lecturer famous for his perversities, patronized for his vulgarity and self-exposure, then his problematic personality is bound to overshadow his scholarship. Paul Goodman is too important a thinker to become another sideshow...
Pain and terror overshadow the world...
...have included not a single university graduate; only about 10% of all new bobbies have the equivalent of a high school diploma. British criminals, by contrast, are becoming more imaginative and technically proficient every year. As for Scotland Yard, even its staunchest admirers admit that the legend tends to overshadow performance. Of a record number of crimes reported in London last year, fewer than 25% were solved; police have recovered none of the $700,000 stolen in four major robberies from one bank during the past three years...
...reserve." suggests the school's founding date: 1826. It was not until 1882 that Western Reserve (enrollment: 8,059) moved from the sleepy hamlet of Hudson to Cleveland, now the nation's eighth biggest city (pop. 870,000). It boasts eight graduate and professional schools that far overshadow its three undergraduate colleges (one for boys, one for girls, one for adults). President John Millis calls this pattern "what we think a university should be," but he also frets over lack of unity: "We are an aggregate of almost independent professional schools...
...edges toward the Elizabethan, Richard Burton's adoptive world, and the study of character develops an interesting flair with Mankiewicz' concept of a long-overshadow Antony who comes to hate the very name of Caesar...