Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bureau. Chaudhuri's novels are more intimate and optimistic than Carver's tales of people mired in middle age depression. They focus on the unexceptional-impressions of people's lives rather than plot-driven Hollywood cliffhangers with dazzling denouements. There may be an occasional epiphany, a sudden realization about particular relationships between characters, but the "aha" factor is minute and quite understated. The arc of the three novels is practically flat, with no particular direction or resolution in mind. What Chaudhuri is more interested in is relishing every moment of a typical day, the sights, sounds and smells...
...venue for the event, the Revolving Museum, is bent on providing non-commercial, local artists a place to create. The museum offers the lowest rent anywhere in the city, and its efforts to pair professional artists with particular neighborhood issues produce "an experimental showcase that really gets the local scene," according to the museum's program director, Bo Lembo...
This morning, don't take your parents to see Marty Feldstein lecture in Harvard Hall. Instead, take them to an overcrowded section in Sever. Try to find a core class being taught by a befuddled TF with no particular expertise in the subject matter. Ask questions he can't answer. Enjoy as the discussion circles endlessly while self-important idiots pontificate in search of participation points. Afterwards, wait in line...
...important to get a peer's perspective, because a professor's or official adviser's perceptions of a particular class are often very different from those of a student who has taken the class," he added...
...someone advises a student that he or she really doesn't need to take a particular course because the department will waive that requirement, and that turns out not to be the case, then the student's very graduation has been put at risk," he says...