Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNFORTUNATELY, these instances of insight are rare in Trevor's text. The author's personal stamp is too little evident in this tour, he defers, rather, to the role of editor and prompter. It is, in a sense, too thorough a tour--one which takes us into too many obscure nooks and crannies of the Irish literary landscape. And too often these unremarkable "bits and pieces" detract from the more important voices--limiting our visit to Swift, for example, to a few rather trivial verses in praise of gardens. The result, then, of this compilation is a thinly disguised anthology...
...surely deserves praise for keeping the heat on. It is rare that Bok puts his Mass Hall bully pulpit to such good use in national debates, and we welcome the largely common-sense analysis and proposals with which he has confronted doctors. But as is so often the case with Bok pronouncements, his words carry a ring of irony given that it is Harvard that is one of the worst perpetrators of the ills he is trying to correct...
...Chinese relationship to sink to its lowest level in a decade. Yet when Reagan steps off Air Force One in Peking this week, it will not only mark the first time that he has ever set foot on Communist soil. The visit will highlight one of the Administration's rare foreign policy successes. Said White House Aide Michael Deaver: "This is Ronald Reagan's most important foreign trip...
...rare breed: an urban entrepreneur working in direct competition with the state. With the help of a brother and sister, Bai handles 80 to 100 customers a day in his neat, red-painted studio, which he keeps open until 8 p.m. seven days a week. He works in the darkroom until midnight, processing the negatives and retouching them to eliminate warts, wrinkles and other unflattering features. "I don't rest," Bai says. "Even during festivals, I never close." Bai usually charges less than one yuan (500) for a portrait, undercutting prices at the state-run photographic studio...
...Minutemen managed to narrow the Harvard lead to two when Karl Hatton outmaneuvered Crimson midfielder Phil Blazar and shot one of the rare balls that freshman goaltender Mike Bergman didn't get his stick on. But with the help of a swarming and agressive defense Bergman shut the door at seven and played an impressive game, making 22 saves and sparking the effective Crimson clear...