Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kennedy's 1961 Inauguration only confirmed his status as the nation's most widely recognized poet. That popularity stemmed largely from his readability; his poetry seemed to speak plainly, in rhyme. But his surfaces concealed depths. The line "And miles to go before I sleep" at first seems straightforward. Repeated immediately, the words convey a trip toward death...
...terrorist. El-Gaili's Egyptian experience, is removed, and yet not, from his preparations to move to New York City after graduation. At Morgan Stanley el-Gaili will analyze oil and gas deals before proceeding to Columbia Law School to study corporate and constitutional law. While seemingly on a straightforward professional career path, el-Gaili says he wishes to use his education to improve conditions in Sudan...
...found her to be warm, thoughtful, straightforward, less than candid but always tactful, with a fine analytical mind with terrific retention of knowledge," Solnit says. "She was always gracious...
...founder Dave Thomas. Freemasonry probably began formally in the 1600s as an English gentleman's club, but by 1717 had evolved into an engine of the European Enlightenment. Its members were committed to egalitarianism, civic participation and other ideals expressed through tropes of the stoneworkers trade: the square for straightforward virtue; the compass to circumscribe one's passions; the plumb line to stay upright. There was little religion but much ritual, which enraged churchmen and engaged conspiracy theorists, who still flood the Web with Masonic villainies, but it posed no problem for the Deists, who frequented the Continental Congress. Benjamin...
...this reason that Ognjen "Ogi" Kavazovic `00 advises a more nonchalant approach. "I'm very straightforward with [the Harvard name] when I say it," he says, "If you're going around trying to avoid it, then that's going to come off as completely unnatural...