Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School progressed in carrying out its strategy? In particular, how well has the faculty succeeded in attracting the kinds of students it seeks and in offering them a useful preparation for public service? Quite well, we will discover, especially if one makes due allowance for the difficult of the task...
...Burley's particular project, funded by the National Cancer Institute, involves the collection of Southeast Asian plants that might help in alleviating or curing cancer and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The work, which is being done jointly with the University of Illinois at Chicago's pharmaceutical program, also entails the interviewing of doctors and other natives who know which plants are used as medicinals...
...drumbeat clears the air, and suddenly the band is cruising through the infectious opening rhythm of The Man in the Hat. The lead singer grabs the microphone and shrieks, "Heading for a meeting/ Across the frozen intersection/ On the night boulevard . . . The man in the hat of no particular fate/ He's neither strong nor weak . . . He's just a man, a man at the sunset...
...surprise. "I wanted to know who it was that allowed you to write that way." That is our major problem. For too many of our citizens, the question is not whether what a person says is correct but whether he has the right to state the truth about a particular subject...
...whether or not he was planning to return to England? Who cares where Graham Greene lives -- in England or in France? And Hemingway, he lived quite peacefully in Cuba (can you imagine! on an island!) and didn't hurry back to his Great Homeland. But Russia, it seems, possesses particular advantages (borders, the KGB, internal passports, patriotism, perestroika, nostalgia) that for some reason must be satisfied. The whole world begs you: Since you're a Russian writer, live in Russia. Especially since there's perestroika...