Word: spanned
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...narrator exhibits her preference for Blue Rhonda and her professional colleagues, but eventually allows readers to glimpse some love in the beautiful mansions. Realizing that these diverse classes will all contribute to the future. Brown portrays the next generation's hope as a bright mulatto child. Catherine Despite its span of only a decade. Southern Discomfort stresses awareness of past and future. The present does not exist in a vacuum, memories of a great-aunt's youth are recalled and young Catherine learns of her lineage. Life continues, and we may be a bitchy, bickering family. Brown implies...
From Macchiavelli to Melvin Laird, which is a not inconsequential span of experience, the historical record suggests that survival is easier for those leaders who stay out of the way of political steamrollers. Indeed, the successful statesman is usually one who is agile enough to dance ahead of great surges of human feeling and direct them to his own purposes...
...Dining Room might be subtitled The Decline of the Wasp, except that it is clear-eyed, touching and buoyantly funny. The stage set itself is something of an anachronism with its Sheraton table, Hepplewhite chairs and dour ancestral portraits. The time span is from the Depression to the present. The dining room used to be the site of unalterable tribal rites-Thanksgiving, Christmas, family fiscal confabulations. Now people eat in the kitchen...
...third period, it was hello killer instinct--five goals for the Harvard side, including two more by Sheehy, in a span of just over seven minutes--and nah-nah-nah-nah, hey-hey-hey, goodbye Clarkson...
Since longitudinal surveys were rare in the Revolutionary Era, and George Gallup was still several generations distant when Old Hickory sat in the White House, Huntington concentrates on the 1960s and 1970s, a span lotted up and graphed more completely than any in our history. His contention that the 1960s closely resembled the other "creedal passion periods" in the degree of adherence to traditional American political values is not so much wrong as incomplete. Certainly, adherence to some "American creed," especially in the early years, is a current that runs through much of the writing from the New Left. Mario...