Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Radcliffe's brochures, its new direction and goals are: "To educate and inspire women for full participation in all areas of life; to strengthen Radcliffe's role as a major center for research on and by women; to engage women in shaping policy on important societal issues...
These changes all aim to strengthen the Core Curriculum. Get humanities students into the lab! Force science concentrators to brave Widener! Enough hedging--Harvard must seize the opportunity to expand its students' minds in the most definitive...
...Christmas Eve party with Dr. Drosselmeyer's enchanted spell on the nutcracker. Everyone in the house has gone to sleep except Clara. She steals back into the living room and soon a battle begins between the life-size Nutcracker and the Mouse-King. Many surprises and creative additions strengthen this central Battle Scene. Mice jump from the stage out into the audience. A dramatic pause after the death of the Mouse-King adds drama and a touch of sorrow, followed by the comic relief of Red Cross arm-banded mice attempting CPR and carrying him away on a stretcher...
...Clara and the Nutcracker enter the Palace of Sweets in the sky. Balanced on the brink between girlhood and young womanhood, Clara's fantasy of a Prince in Candyland bridges fairy-tale elements that reflect her changing age. The stage sets and costumes in the second act strengthen the power of her fantasy--the walls of the palace look edible and the costumes look like they were made out of sugar and cotton candy. The Nutcracker (Carlos Santos) distinguishes himself as he masterfully retells through dance movement the story of the battle with the mice...
This issue of Time is devoted to American diversity, and thus by definition to the differences among Americans. Those differences gain their impact, however, from the bonds that unite them in one vast and variegated country. They are differences that should not divide or weaken America, but distinguish and strengthen it. They are the reason to keep the welcome mat, however worn and tattered at times, always ready at the door...