Word: placement
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Here is a masterly novel asking placement in the continuum of broader history. It invites and aspires to comparisons with the great novels of literary history. The lines and intersections of characters' lives are set within the dislocating phases of world events. All is understood in the perspective of the slowwheeling geometry of time's sweep. Hazzard handles her saga about the lonely remnants of several families with a stylish cinematic control that gives us a highly structured plot moving in the shadow of Greek tragedy. She roams the world with a chastened recognition of larger patterns beyond individual fate...
...Council also again approved and sent on to the full Faculty a proposal to give advanced standing only to freshmen who receive three grades of four or better on Advanced Placement tests. Currently three grades of three or better are required...
...Crimson is wrong when it suggests that "the only way to eliminate...insensitivity is to [racially] integrate the places where it occurs." The placement of more Third World students in White-dominated institutions does little good if these students are not actively encouraged to express their points of view. Moreover, it represents an abdication of responsibility to claim that the only way for The Crimson to be more sensitive to Third World issues is for more Third World students to join The Crimson. The Crimson says, in other words, "It's your fault. You have to come...
...book racks are filled with volumes of confession and revenge. People rush to destroy their own privacy, possibly judging that loneliness is worse. In the past ten or twelve years, everything has tumbled out of the closet in a heap. Some homosexuals parade themselves like walking billboards, the placement of the keys and handkerchiefs in their back pockets acting as a semaphore to signal the specific secrets of their sexual tastes...
...study and a similar study conducted by the College Placement Council in Bethlehem, Pa, showed that the greatest demand exists for graduates with degrees in engineering, the natural sciences, mathematics, and other technical areas...