Word: pit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...within the one-square-mile village, and franchisers are likely to get a warmer reception in Moscow. This is a town that has banned neon and has precious few streetlights or sidewalks. Residents pick up their mail at the post office because houses are identified by names like "Apricot Pit" or "Little Sur" but have no street addresses. The mayor would like to guard this ambience even more vigorously; she is proud of the fact that during her two terms the business district has actually got smaller...
...resurrected in Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned, the magnificent two-volume memoir by his wife Nadezhda. She died in 1980, and Brodsky recalls her life of outcast poverty and how she hid her husband's manuscripts in saucepans. In the end, her kitchen became a cultural pit stop for touring writers and scholars. She tired of the attention, Brodsky says, and looked forward to death, because "up there I'll again be with Osip." The poet Anna Akhmatova disagreed. "You've got it all wrong," she told her old friend. "Up there it's now me who is going...
...Nevada namesake) and a men's store with top hat, gloves and cane outlined in a neon sign (which is, however, seldom lit). Las Vegas may have Wayne Newton and the Golden Nugget, but Hibbing produced Bob Dylan, and it boasts that it has the world's largest open-pit iron mine...
However, a production such as this lives or dies by its musicans--both in the pit and on stage. Michael J. McNulty as Tamino, for instance, was handsome enough for the tenor part, but lacked the tonal quality and voice for the upper-register arias which are necessary to the role. His loud, shrill voice broadcasted well through the intimate Lowell House Dining Hall, but, as a result, the minor idiosyncracies in his less-than-smooth portrayal stuck out as well...
Both the affirmative action and model minority arguments pit minority groups against each other on a scale of legitimacy. In the words of Harvard Professor Glenn C. Loury, these arguments "require us to compare degrees of suffering and extents of moral outrage as experienced internally, subjectively, by different peoples." In Loury's view, it is Blacks who compare the suffering of minority groups when they respond to their critics by saying "you didn't suffer...