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Word: presented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present, only the minority subcommittee screens minority applicants, and the full committee usually follows its recommendations as a matter of course...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Appeasing Bakke | 1/12/1979 | See Source »

...Latin American authors who employ surrealist and experimental techniques. With his emphasis on fantasy and indigenous mythology, and his use of innovations in novelistic form, he attempts to assert his intellectual independence from Western literary traditions. Like his Argentine compatriot, Jorge Borges, Cortazar portrays a reality in which past, present and future exist simultaneously; a world where his characters are trapped in the labyrinth of modern society. Cortazar's two best-known works, the short story "Blow Up" (on which director Antonioni based his film) and the novel Hopscotch, exemplify his search for a new Latin American identity...

Author: By Judy E. Matloff, | Title: Rebels Without A Cause | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

Since we believe that the negative consequences of acting to change the name are outweighed by the damaging effects to the School of allowing the Engelhard name to remain, the agreement ought to be reconsidered. Two options present themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dear Dean Allison... | 1/10/1979 | See Source »

...artist in the world," Ruskin wrote, "is to be a seeing and feeling creature...the work of his life is to be twofold only: to see, to feel." The conviction advanced in the 1860s and '70s by the French Impressionists that seeing is equivalent to feeling has been present in photography throughout its history. But only recently, especially with the sudden increase of color work among serious photographers, has a painterly love and awe for pure optical effects impressively begun to displace the photographer's traditional documentary concerns...

Author: By Larry Shapiro, | Title: Mirrors, Windows and Peaches | 1/10/1979 | See Source »

...remains to be said (or rather, seen) in Meyerowitz's Cape Cod pictures, that despite innumerable glories and pleasures, pain, suffering and psychological ambiguity are persistently present in the world, even in Provincetown; that to live in a salubrious vacuum like Cape Cod is something of a luxury and a privilege, with all the possible, complacent delusions attendant to luxury and privilege at full work; that most women are not bathing beauties, and that this fact is not necessarily a misfortune; that to see, in Wordsworth's phrase, into the life of things, requires a particular kind of mental firmness...

Author: By Larry Shapiro, | Title: Mirrors, Windows and Peaches | 1/10/1979 | See Source »

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