Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modern setting. Going far beyond the Bard's request for "brevity," playwright Richard Curtis has provided the most laconic dialogue in memory. Hamlet's famous--and, in a bad production, interminable--soliloquy is reduced here to eight words. In the economical vocabulary of Curtis' leather-clad characters, a particular unprintable word suggesting the sexual act makes up half the dialogue, to hilarious result...
...ritualistic spring tours of Harvard Yard for pre-frosh (perspective freshmen at Swarthmore) take on new import. The high schoolers are doing more than soaking up the surroundings; they are taking note off Harvard's particular linguistics...
...said it is state legislatures, not the courts, which must evaluate such statistical studies and determine "the appropiate punishment for particular crimes...
...concerned, breadth and depth are not antithetical concepts. Among the social sciences, history is that discipline whose practitioners most need to combine broad and specific knowledge. The great historians (Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, to speak only of the dead) created novel and lasting interpretations by combining profound knowledge of particular topics with a wide factual basis and broad conceptualization. This view of history is, I submit, well worth espousing; and is not an ignoble aspiration for a History Department. Angeliki Laiou Chairman, History Department
...people are now saying "The Dodgers, of all teams," the Dodger players are saying "The Chief, of all people." Campanis had a reputation for fairness: he once traded his son to the Athletics. And the Latin players, in particular, have regarded him as a patron. Pedro Guerrero murmured, "Probably, if it wasn't for him, I would've been somewhere else . . . I know he didn't mean to say that." The question is, How many others did he speak...