Word: regressivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Emily Dickinson corresponded with her lover, a married man, she made every letter count. Today, the art of letter writing has been reduced to the dregs of sub-standard English found in e-mail. Even grade A Harvard scribes tend to regress on the Internet, thanks to the College's most tried and true teaching method: Pavlovian conditioning...
Despite the thrill of beating the Huskies--to whom Harvard lost 4-2 in last year's Beanpot consolation match at Boston Garden--and the exceptional performances by Zakowich and captain Brad Konik (three goals), the Crimson seemed to regress to the Huskies' Hockey East style of play. Hockey East is notorious for favoring a more physical push-and-shove approach as opposed to the finesse and smoother skating more characteristic of the Crimson's ECAC...
...shaky sources) that they can be found in the weight room. Is this explosion of fecundity a mere coincidence, or is there an explanation for the disproportionate number of kids who have suddenly appeared in the house? In the interest of pulp journalism and succumbing to a yearning to regress to the Core-free, tricycle-filled years of childhood, Fifteen Minutes gathered ruminations on the Mather House baby boom...
...funny money to a woman (Lauren Holly) with whom he is smitten. This involves a journey across America with Harry (Jeff Daniels), Lloyd's equally dense roommate, in a truck that looks like a gigantic sheep dog. In order to enjoy the pair's company, adult viewers must regress to those thrilling days of yesteryear when bodily dysfunction represented the height of hilarity. But Carrey (ably abetted here by the woofly Daniels) is both symbol and satirist of our apparently irresistible dumbing down. Astonished attention must be paid...
...funny money to a woman (Lauren Holly) with whom he is smitten. This involves a cross-country journey with Harry (Jeff Daniels), Lloyd's equally dense roommate, in a truck that looks like a gigantic sheep dog. In order to enjoy the pair's company, adult viewers must regress to those thrilling days of yesteryear when bodily dysfunction represented the height of hilarity. But Carrey (ably abetted here by the woofly Daniels) is both symbol and satirist of our apparently irresistible dumbing down. Astonished attention must be paid...