Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skirt, the Marquise is an equally manipulative woman. She claims that she was "born to dominate [the male] sex and avenge my own." She is a mistress of detachment. She creates a stark barrier between her true feelings and her appearance. These deceptive underpinnings fuel the nervous tension that culminates in an eventful climax, in which the protagonists learn that "vanity and happiness are incompatible...
...Harvard needs to take more proactive measuresagainst racial tension," said candidate Aaron J.Snow '93. "And I think the Foundation is in a goodposition to do that...
...made a personal commitment to finding away to ease racial tension in the Universitycommunity, thus raising the stakes for hispresidency...
Still, he said, "Enough students feel some of that tension and some of thatsense of being not fully respected in a sensitiveway all the time that it does concern me. I don'tthink it's easy to resolve because there are alsoother groups that have similar concerns...
...guided me through the relaxation process, and her soothing voice forced the tension from my body, from my forehead, my shoulders, my fingertips, my knees...