Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Probably the single most important concept that the convention has dealt with is representation. The new student government simply must be representative of student opinion to effectively portray them and help shape University policy...
Uniquely, greater Washington's economy improves in both good times and bad. Not by magic. Public problems are to Washington what oil and gas are to Texas. In Washington the fuel crisis that is but a specter everywhere else takes the shape of a new Department of Energy. Somehow the city does not need to fear the economic cycles that batter the rest of a country. Why not? Well, as the New Republic put it, "Washingtonians live outside of the law of supply and demand...
Since the '60s kids still hold relatively junior jobs, their influence remains limited. But just wait a while. Says Stephen McLin, 31, planning vice president for the Bank America Corp.: "The people from my generation are not driving the ship yet, but we can shape a little of what goes on. In a few years, we will take the helm...
...onlooker to explore the processes of the perceiving mind. He gives us the dance: wondrous, self-delighting motion without any prop of plot or theme or explicit significance. And watching the dance, one becomes aware of the mind's response: a subjective discernment of plot and pattern, and the shape of ritual; a perception of the grounds of symbolic recognition in the flowering of unburdened form...
...general term. While the British punk rockers vomit on their audiences and cry for anarchy, Boston punk rock is at times nothing more than pure late-'50s-early-'60s rock'n'roll. Joe is quick to point out that punk is the song of a culture, and different cultures shape different songs...