Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understandably critical that it was not made clear whether they would attend as individuals or as representatives of their organizations. Nor has it been made clear if the committee is only a study group restricted to racial interaction, or whether the group will be able to propose changes in particular areas such as affirmative action programs and admissions policies...
Crimson Sports Cube 101 midterm (50 minutes): using the themes, strategies, and patterns developed over the past five weeks, discuss potential outcomes of the football race, paying particular attention to the schedule and unpredictability (use of past 'Cube Predix' permissible) characteristic of Ivy League grid play...
Since terrorism in general and skyjacking in particular became international political threats, Western governments have created special units to combat guerrillas and, if possible, rescue their terrified victims. The senior service in the war against terrorism is Britain's 900-man Special Air Service Regiment. Founded in Libya in 1942 to penetrate the lines of Rommel's Afrika Korps, the S. A.S. has battled Communist guerrillas in Malaya, Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, and I.R.A. gunmen in South Armagh. Probably the most seasoned commando force is Israel's General Intelligence and Reconnaissance Unit 269; its accomplishments include...
Biographer Ferris can fill in some blanks about Thomas' shaky finances, dig up the autopsy report that found Thomas' liver in reasonably good shape, even print unpublished verse of no particular distinction. In the end, the book seems too late with too little. But its main shortcoming is a failure to render the only Dylan Thomas that really matters-the maker of pagan word music that can still pass the A.E. Houseman power test by raising the hairs on the back of the listener's neck. - R.Z. Sheppard
...plot centers. Miguel Pinero fills his script with the street-wise argot of Harlem and the South Bronx that gives the dialogue an authentic ring. The effective color and accuracy of the ghetto-flavored jive should hardly come as a surprise; Pinero owes this ability to evoke a particular brand of slang to his own experience as an inmate at Sing Sing Prison. The crisp repartee that dominates the opening moments of Short Eyes soon becomes a bit much, however, reflecting the actual origins of the work...