Word: set
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the previously set-up formula, activist Hoffman's self-induced end should have sounded the death knell for the generations' hopes. The beacon of idealism, the one who, unlike so many others, never sold out, had admited defeat and in a fit of exhaustion slid into death's enticing embrace...
Every non-mathematical field in the University has its own set of vague generalities. For instance...
Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless, of course he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want...
...Hwang will write himself, he is working on three other films: a TV movie for PBS, which he will also direct, about a love affair between an FBI agent and the daughter of a man he hounded to death; "a Victorian rock musical about Oscar Wilde"; and a semiadventure set in Tibet. For the stage, he and Glass hope to adapt Andre Malraux's novel of revolutionary China in the 1920s, Man's Fate, and Hwang is also writing what he opaquely terms a "multicultural farce...
...Turkish- controlled side of the island and illegally offered for sale on the international art market. Said Archbishop Chrysostomos of the Cyprus Church: "This just decision by the American court will help end the illegal marketing of looted archaeological items worldwide." Museum directors expect the decision to set an important precedent for regulating the antiquities market...