Word: titanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comic novelists, is more relaxed about Tolstoy's contradictions and racked conscience. His imaginative approach to the mysteries of personality is a good reminder that consistency is for peanut butter, not for geniuses who exploit their conflicts in creative acts. Wilson's Tolstoy is the story of the literary titan's relationships with three subjects: God, Russia and women...
Harvard hockey defenseman Don Sweeney was named to the Titan All-America second team this week, adding to his selection as a first team ALL-ECAC player...
...Pulitzer Prize remains the one trophy able to bestow a career-boosting mystique that glows past retirement on a newspaper reporter's resume. Like the Oscar, a Pulitzer is good for business, instantly improving the reputation of a small or medium-size paper or ratifying the status of a titan. In short, it is a glory to fight for, and journalists...
...Many of us in the Air Force are about six feet off the ground," said Air Force Secretary Edward Aldridge. They had every right to be. For the first time in 35 months, a Titan 34D rocket blasted into space last week. The troubles of the 161-ft. Titan, the nation's most powerful unmanned space vehicle, had come to symbolize the paralyzed U.S. space program. In August 1985 a Titan exploded only a few minutes into flight. In April 1986 disaster struck again during lift-off. In the interim, the Challenger tragedy put a halt to manned space flight...
Polito, who received his Ph.D. in 1980, said he had changed the direction of his work since writing his dissertation, "At the Titan's Breakfast: Three Essays on Byron's Poetry." He said he no longer planned to revise it for publication now that Garland is bringing out the dissertation...