Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pauses, seems lost in thought, then begins again, determined to make her point. "I just don't think we give enough credit to our public. The Viet Nam memorial was first seen as some sort of elitist statement. It's like you see it before you really see it. But if you don't have preconceived notions, the presence of the object will touch you in some way, and you'll be in dialogue with it. I mean, what do you do with people like Tom Wolfe? His fear of modern art is sad. He must have been flogged with...
...Scott Fitzgerald once suggested that "the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time." If so, America has developed a perverse sort of genius. Yet both national moods -- the urge to deny risk and the urge to insist that we can protect ourselves from it entirely -- may be traceable to the same unfailing optimism. In a culture that has long fancied itself a New World paradise, disasters seem impossible either to imagine or to tolerate. People expect to conduct the pursuit of happiness along a road that...
...Ever since I was little, I saved up to go on a mission," Griffin says. In Germany, Griffin went to different towns in the Frankfurt area talking with people interested in the Mormon Church and also trying to help people sort out family problems...
...Having those sort of players in front of youonly gives you something to play up to," Andersonsaid. "People who are not playing that much atHarvard right now can say, 'Be as good as Char.Play like Lisa does. Do this like Sharon.' That'show you build a program. They'll be fine...
...Winning the title was sort of a dream goal,"she said. "We came a long way. It's been our bestchance so far, but I guarantee there will bemore...Next year...