Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move is intended to "make the committee comparable in size to other law school committees, not to displace a particular human being," he added...
...rival claimant for Celine's particular kind of sacredness: his sense of being a creature of the night, burdened with exceptional suffering and rewarded with mystical insight. Why does the Jew come from the depths of the ages to terrify us? It is because he is Western man's bad conscience, the victim of his brutality, the reminder of death...
...shot Faye Dunaway. Nor does the film's shallow social satire allow its all star cast to flourish any more than does the plot. Mastoianni is locked into a dull role as a middle class detective unsure of how to treat the high society Torinisti he is investigation, in particular how to deal with his growing non-professional interest in Jacqueline Bisset. Bisset does not seem half so bored as her constant companion. Trintignant. (who frequently looks as if he might scream if forced to make one more stereotypical gay gesture), but only because she does not appear sharp enough...
...widow of an insurance man, has turned out to be the secret weapon of the Carter campaign-a tiny, stylishly dressed, white-haired dynamo. After she whipped through Maine, Senator Edmund Muskie called Carter to say in awe: "Everywhere I go, your Aunt Sissy is there." She is in particular demand on the senior-citizen circuit, but she delights all audiences, hauling her own bags and declaring in a soft, honeyed drawl: "Hi, I'm Jimmy Carter's Aunt Sissy. I hope you'll vote for my boy for President...
...even glance at a Sox score. At Fenway one eye is always fixed on the National League scoreboard. The attachment is probably a part of growing up. For instance, when you are younger you don't figure that the Phils are just a bunch of pros with no particular allegiance to their home town. For all I knew the whole team was born and raised in Philly--just a bunch of all-stars plucked from great Center City high schools. (I must admit, however, that early on my geography had gotten the best of me, I wasn't sure...