Word: stiltedness
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SO HE'S PUSHY. So he drove his wife out. Maybe he's impossible to control; his last two roles have been sadistic, self-aggrandizing caricatures of himself. But it's been a natural, hard-fought road. This relic of the B-movie studio star has grown to a force...
Ethnic America is Sowell's chronicle of the peopling of America, a tale that has found as many different ways of telling as there are historians to tell it. High school text-books indoctrinate young students of our culture with the vision of the land of opportunity and the open...
The author must create a character out of a woman who has devoted her whole life to forging a character out of artificial roles. Angelou sets an awesome task for herself. She must fill her book with all the negative roles of white American society and Black American culture and...
Each August the residents of the hamlet of Baan Nabua, 30 miles south of the Mekong River center of Nakhon Phanom, stop all work and open their stilted houses to visitors for a celebration. Government officials gather for a feast and an all-night spectacle that features classical Thai dancing...
THE FINAL, and by far the largest, section of the book is the list of courses, divided by department. Many of the courses have lengthy descriptions written by the professors who teach them. Students rarely place much value on them, tending to rely more on the Confidential Guide, the CUE...