Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group this theory under the general heading "RATIONALIZATION." Derek Bok and his buddies can be blamed for many problems on the Harvard campus but dragging them into the dating scene is ridiculous. Taken to its logical extreme, the "Blame Harvard" theory implies that Bok himself should run a dating service. (Key question: would students be assigned to one another randomly...
...York City bring- the-family pageant is one of the grandest holiday traditions in the U.S. Satisfyingly the same from year to year, yet spruced up just enough, the fast- moving script mingles Charles Dickens, Santa Claus and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker with carols and hymns. The climactic Nativity scene features camels, donkeys and other live animals. This year's production serves up dazzling special effects and opulent costumes, as well as the show-stopping, high-kicking Rockettes. If at times the narration suggests the entire world is Christian, or should be, the overwhelming message is joy and goodwill...
...Wolfe's jeremiad, the "puppet-masters" of the American literary scene imported a new pantheon of foreign literary gods -- Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The "headlong rush" to get rid of realism, Wolfe complains, resulted in statements like that of experimental novelist John Hawkes, "I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme...
Both NBC and CBS television reported last night that all the Americans, including military personnel, were freed unharmed. The reports were attributed to the U.S. Embassy but the reports were refuted late yesterday by the Red Cross and sources from the scene...
According to Johnson, the officer who responded to the call said he saw a group of four white men running down Linden St. shortly after the robbery occurred, but before arriving at the scene of the attack. He said that police believed the four were responsible for the attack...