Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assets and virtues. Love is based on the sense of the mystery of the person. Here we have the privilege of meeting people in via, as it is said, on the way. They're on a journey. The gratitude I feel is that I am able to see this particular person at this particular time. Yet the person remains an unfathomable mystery, and is going somewhere I will never know...
Instead of addressing his own sheet of paper, he turns to one Betsy has been working on; she is occupied with Carmen. He draws a satanic face within Betsy's outline. "The devil is in her," he says to no one in particular. Elena draws a girl with a thick brown ponytail, like her own. The hair Carmen gives herself is half black, half red. Michael to Betsy: "The devil is in your heart, and he is trying to make you bad." Betsy watches as he covers the picture of her face with a cyclone of circles...
...began playing Beatrice's Monday Night Winning Lineup contest. Cards for the game were available in display cases in grocery stores. On the cards were two rows of dots, and contestants had to scratch them off to reveal the number of field goals and touchdowns scored in a particular football game. The grand prize was a trip valued at $20,000 for eight to the Super Bowl in a Learjet...
...Lyrics is as much a catalogue of a society's groping for purpose as it is that of one man. It's not a question of whether the volume is worth your time--rather, it's how best to make sense of a man whose constant dissatisfaction with any particular Answer has led him in turn to inspire and to disappoint nearly every constituency in popular culture...
Fuller blames the Core Curriculum for draining students from more exotic courses. "The Core Curriculum has been killing off middle-level classes in all disciplines, particularly the humanities. You figure out how many courses you have to take for you particular major, then you figure out how many you take for the Core, then you figure out how many are left," Fuller says...