Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kenworthy was influenced profoundly by twocourses he took sophomore year on the Soviet Unionthat were taught by Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professorof History Richard E. Pipes and Gurney Professorof History and Political Science Adam B. Ulam. "Iwas prepared to believe what they were saying, buttheir explantions didn't seem adequate," he says."I began leaning towards a much more skepticalview of their approach...
Even now, though, when people who've known me for a couple of years here find out that I'm from Beverly Hills, they're really surprised, and say, "I didn't know that," or "You don't seem like that...
Harvard cannot seem to resist the urge to throw itself a big party every 50 years of so. The first such fun-fest occurred in 1836, when 1500 old chaps endured rain in Harvard Yard to drink wine and and hear Oliver Wendell Holmes sing a song in honor of the College's 200th anniversary...
...said he allowed the shanties to remain up through the spring as an expression of "mutual respect," but said, "I am forced to admit that the respecting of rights has been somewhat one-sided, that a purely voluntary system of balancing rights does not seem feasible, and what might be regarded as an experiment has not been entirely successful...
Fast-food architecture is coming full circle too. Two years ago, outside Chicago, the deconstructionist New York firm SITE built a sublime McDonald's. The basic kit of pieces was standard, but SITE made the whole restaurant seem to hover: brick walls are cantilevered up off the ground, the roof floats above the walls. Decadent, maybe, but delightful too. In heartland suburbia, the highest of high camp has thus been achieved. When kitsch icons like McDonald's come with their own built-in ironic critique, an epoch must...