Word: roundedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Plath reads her poems with a relentless intensity. She seems to hurl her words at the listener, each elegantly rounded vowel like a trajectory for a gunshot-sharp consonant. Just as she tried in her poetry to use her craft and skill to "manipulate intense personal experience"--as she says...
But Davis' stance on gun control is something else again. He says that all too many of his city's affluent "swimming-pool Communists" pose a serious threat to law-and-order. Respectable citizens, he says, should arm themselves to ward off domestic terrorism, and to be ready...
But the new trend doesn't mean much either, and the fact that more artists are flocking to Harvard now than ever before can be attributed more justifiably to universal than University trends. It may be the century-old concept of the "well-rounded" artist, or the current trend away...
President James Bryant Conant '14 wrote in 1943, "Today, we are concerned with a general education--a liberal education--not for the relatively few, but for the multitude," and thus invented the prevailing optimistic theory about what Harvard College does. You will supposedly come here and become well-rounded and...
The diplomatic and economic quarantine of Cuba by the Organization of American States has been tough to sustain-and equally tough to get off the books. Last year, before a meeting of OAS foreign ministers in Quito, it seemed like a good bet that delegates of pro-Cuba countries had...