Word: randomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...evening was divided into two acts, the first featuring works by Tsvetaeva and the second featuring works by Akhmatova. The otherwise random selections of the poems related to periods in the poet's lives, rather than to periods in their literary development. Before each reading, Bloom would provide some historical context, explaining connections between events in the poet's lives and the poems. This information gave a certain degree of coherence to the evening. More importantly, it added a personal dimension to the words of the poets, tying the emotions evoked to the physical reality behind them. The specific events...
...which are underrepresented at Harvard, the Black Students Association did not at any time, solicit financial assistance from the Foundation bringing Leonard Jeffries. Racial problems will continue to exist as long as students prefer not to deal with all sides of diversity. Racial harmony cannot be achieved by ignoring "random graffiti" or blindly condemning the perspective of speakers like Jeffries...
...first glance, "...Best," The Smiths' new compilation double album, seems like a simple random reshuffling of a handful of tracks from "Louder than Bombs," the bands earlier greatest hits package. But take a closer look, because "...Best" is in fact a more than fair representation of the group's music...
...stock theme of boy-girl misunderstandings detracts from the mood of raw bleakness induced by songs like "The Headmaster Ritual" and "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now." Furthermore, the song shifts the album's focus sharply away from the peculiarities of Morissey's self absorbed first person to random generality in a disconcerting fashion...
produced and edited by Proctor Patterson Jones (Random House; $85). History unfurls like the tricolore in this opulent work tracing Bonaparte's 14 years of supremacy. Within that astonishingly brief period, the little Corsican won wars and women, revised laws and set a style still echoing in EuropeUs corridors of power...