Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humor, A Summons to Memphis provides it. The comedy is situational, two spinster sisters preventing their octagenerian father from remarrying; descriptive, this same eccentric duo frequenting nightclubs, dressed in sequined, clingy, front-and-back plunging fashions; and double-edged, undercut by a gently cynical realism. The comic sensibility is particular to Taylor's novel, but the truths revealed are universal...
Beyond its immediate benefits, the decision is an example of how student needs can be communicated to an administration that often seems closed and impersonal. In particular, the Undergraduate Council deserves praise for initiating that communication and seeing it through. Last spring the council sent a report to the Committee on College Life recommending the purchase. Through the committee, the College formally perceived a pressing student need and did something about it. This model for communication and change in the community shows how simple such a process can and should...
...CONVENTIONAL film-maker, Avildsen said he had no secret dreams waiting to burst onto the screen, no particular places to show or tales to tell. A good story and good characters, in the median sense of the word, is what he likes. His opinion of artsy films, such as Room with a View, is no-nonsense Hollywood: "It was pretty," he said, "but it was endless. The characters weren't that compelling." Certainly not as compelling as, say, Apollo Creed...
...reading series used by 15,000 school districts, this first federal ruling to shelter school children from educational materials is a landmark not for the precedent it might set for schools across the land. Rather, it is important precisely because the ruling specifically limits its application to this particular fundamentalist group's complaint. The decision was not so much a ruling as an exception to the rule. The court seems to have abandoned its function of establishing...
ISRAEL has fought six wars since its founding and in only one did it initiate hostilities. But Shipler's chapter on war is mostly a discussion of how Palestinians have gotten a raw deal from the Middle East's wars in general and the Lebanese War in particular. Nothing about how the Six-Day War started, or why the Yom Kippur War was fought...