Word: reveling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reform tax policy is not to simply build level upon revel of complex hierarchy into the code. Instead, the format must be simplified. Americans have a right to an efficient tax system that does not waste their time and hard-earned dollars...
...good read" in the best sense of that overused phrase. It sustains the reader's interest, it has pleasantly rich descriptions of the blueness of seas and skies, and the vignettes of life in the village of Santiago are absorbing. Best of all, it is entirely possible to revel in the dainty perfection of the symbolism contained in Benitez's flowers, stars, soil and smoke without considering the triteness...
...again, Schami's narrative tactic seems more like salesmanship. He uses this structure not for any purpose so much as to revel in it for its sake. Modern authors like Calvino use a similar framework to lay bare all the peculiar social and intellectual conventions of reading , to strike at the very heart of our understanding of narrative, to unravel the fabric of reality-to bring the universe of perception to its knees. Schami uses it because it's cool and exotic...
Finally, Harvard first-year students are seeing the light. They now revel in violence and want to assassinate each other like healthy, red-blooded Americans raised on television and rap. Rather than quashing the fun, Harvard administrators should embrace this game rooted in violence, which is, after all, as American as motherhood, apple pie or intercollegiate football. It's a chance to improve Harvard's image...
...biology than patriarchy. Even after the most egalitarian of educations, for instance, women tend to be more nurturing than men and to need things like security and commitment in order to be happy. Men, on the other hand, tend to be more aggressive and authoritarian. They also tend to revel in insecurity and shun commitment. Despite the many obstacles encouraging women to the contrary, women tend to want children and the chance to stay at home with them; men tend to do better competing in the workplace because of their different needs and dispositions...