Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today, a lifetime after his death (he was born in 1857 and died in 1927), it would seem very rash to deny that Atget (pronounced At-jay) was one of the great artists of the 20th century. But there is nothing to suggest that he thought so himself. In his old age, he was much admired in the more advanced Parisian cultural circles; the surrealists, for instance, loved the mystery of his street scenes, with their pervasive sense that Something (the surrealist merveilleux) was about to break into the world round the corner, at the end of the perspective...
...rash of thefts of women's undergarments has swept the MIT campus this month, prompting the police there to organize a campus-wide search for the culprit based on a composite sketch of the man thought to be the perpetrator of the crimes...
Gleefully sipping champagne at an afternoon celebration, Bloembergen and his colleagues attributed the recent rash of Nobel Laureates--seven in the last three years--to Harvard's demanding tenuring process, which they said winnows out all but the most stellar of scholars in a manner similar to the Nobel selection format of the Swedish Academy...
...Houses. Though he made no specific recommendations, Bok singled out incidents of racial tension, harassment of gay students, disrespect for property, and lack of consideration for neighbors as increasing problems. Bok's talk impressed the masters. The president, they said later, seemed unusually troubled by the perceived rash of "inconsiderate" behavior...
JOSEPH WOLPE, author of Our Useless Fears, sets himself a lofty goal. You would never know it from the cover: the inch-high purple letters hailing "the world's foremost authority on anxiety" immediately remind one of the rash of self-help books so abundant during the last few years. But in opening paragraph of his preface, Wolpe assures us that his book is not of that genre, revealing his true motive in a voice filled with profound eloquence: "These offshoots of behavior therapy are like the uppermost branches of a tree, visible above a mist." He expounds further...