Word: rigorousity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the competition looked rigorous and the numbers of people overwhelming, most students kept smiling faces. "I can't take it all too seriously," Martin said. But when the photographer called his name, he stepped forward and said "See you in Hollywood."
At 29, Weissman is typical of a new breed of sharp-tongued television writers who showed last week that the docile, fluffy and often self-serving TV coverage of the past is fast disappearing. Their forum was a notorious newspaper junket, the semiannual network extravaganza to unveil new shows. Fifteen...
In a pitilessly consistent democracy, judges would not be making law at all," said Judge Learned Hand. Why, then, he wondered, do people not resent it when they do? That was 35 years ago, when judges were for the most part more restrained about making new law than they are...
"But that asceticism may also be quoted. The work of Richard Meier in particular, and to a lesser extent that of Charles Gwathmey and Michael Graves, is permeated by the Corbusian dream of the "white world," the building as a metaphor of clarity, order and singularity set against the enveloping...
Teng seems to have recognized the tumble-down state of Chinese learning. Today there are only about 630,000 university students in a population of 1 billion. Nationwide examinations for admission to universities were dropped in 1966 as part of the egalitarianism of the Cultural Revolution. Now they have not...