Word: perturbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truths and profound metaphysical concerns. Instead, he is a cataloguer of everyday feelings and attitudes. He realizes, however, that everyday feelings are more complicated than they may seem and are best dealt with by pulling one step away from the commonplace. He has said that the ideal novel should "perturb not only because of its political and social content, but also because of its power of penetrating reality, and better yet, because of its capacity to turn reality upside down so we can see the other side of it." By magically twisting reality so heaven is at the bottom...
...students insist that although they may be going to law school they don't necessarily intend on practicing law. Whether they end up doing so, especially realizing that many people who go into law school with that attitude. emerge with a different, more corporate bent, did not seem to perturb these students. Students interested in going into business were by far the last to decide on careers. Their interests wavered among a number of fields, particularly economics and the sciences before they decided on careers in business...
...abundance of Crimson jerseys in the crease began to perturb Princeton goalie Fred Cherne, so he began shoving and was called for interference. The power play wrath of the Hughes Corporation then made it 3-0, with George scoring on assists from Jack and Hozack...
...from nowhere," said Lebanese Delegate to UNESCO Halim Said Abu-Izzeddin. Explaining the conference's measures, UNESCO's new head, Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal, declared: "UNESCO is composed of almost the same member states as the U.N. It is natural that the problems which perturb the world today should find an echo there...