Word: placement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some students in Pennypacker say theirsociability seems to have played a larger role inthe placement process than their common interests...
...Australian culture, except for some of its pop music and literature, is wretchedly underreported in the U.S. In fact, this is the first effort ever made by an American museum even to show any images made in Australia in the 19th century, let alone give them context and historical placement...
High-achieving black students who study hard complain that their less successful peers castigate them for "acting white." One black counselor said black students should not take difficult advanced-placement courses because they wouldn't do well in them. You could argue that such self-destructive behavior reflects a so-called slave mentality, but history suggests otherwise. The newly emancipated freedmen valued two things above all else: their own land and education. They certainly didn't think learning was "white...
...Tinio '00, who is thrilled that her department finally left its temporary home on Dunster Street. In the basement, Comparative Literature displaced the language lab and the media production center, both of which are now less convenient to the departments in Boylston Hall. The University made decisions regarding department placement long before Ms. Randall began the Boylston project...
...album presses onward to its most interesting track, "Transmitter Down." The climaxing pattern is still prevalent, but the rhythm is steady, and the choice and placement of samples are more inventive and interesting. The guitar distortion and synthesized beeps are steady enough to be danced to. This element, which is integral to the popularity of techno, is absent from Experiment Below. The rhythms are too haphazard to be heard at a dance club, but the melody patterns are too repetitive to be appreciated for its artistically creative elements. This places Hovercraft in a netherworld between light industrial and dance techno...