Word: tended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more important issue really has to do with the recruiting that takes place. For example, African-American students tend to be among the most highly desired and recruited students," he said...
...great admirer of Tobias Wolff, who was actually a teacher of mine. He writes so well about the pain of growing up. But where he writes about characters under extreme pressure, I tend to write about characters who are overtly normal...
When examining commitment in relationships, Guerette saysm "Harvard students tend to have long-term relationships more than random dating because it's less to worry about. You don't have to worry about whether or not you're going out that weekend...
...have never believed that life is revealed in its cataclysmic moments, its "wake-up calls," but rather in repose, when people go about the quieter business of being who they are. Journalists tend to turn to where the noise is. One of the things your death bequeaths is a reminder to look where the noise is not. One can tell far more interesting things about a crowd at a picnic than a mob in the streets, or about someone like you when you were writing poems and performing in school plays, or just dreaming without a sound, than when murder...
...success of these two giant tragedies is notable, for they stand in marked contrast to most of the pygmy-size works around them. New plays these days tend to be small, tidy things, dramas that tend their own little garden and don't venture very far into the wild outdoors. Hare's The Blue Room, which brought Nicole Kidman to Broadway earlier this season, reduced Schnitzler's La Ronde to a trivial actors' exercise for two. Hare then went one better (or one lesser) by appearing onstage alone, recounting his trip to the Middle East and calling it a play...