Word: topical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...enough to turn any woman's hair prematurely grey: contemplation is feminine, action is masculine, and the ideal woman is a death-like fragile heroine ready to expire at a moment's notice. Edgar Allen Poe said, "The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world" -- no doubt to everyone except the woman who's doing the dying...
...Sunday, October 5, 1980 The New York Times Magazine devoted two articles to the topic: "The Black Plight: Race or Class?" which took the form of a debate between Kenneth Clark, a prominent Black psychologist and Carl Gershman, a former civil-rights activist...
...hours a week, which many students think they could use better on their own, one student presents his thesis on a topic most students know nothing about and then the professor asks him questions, while the other students are left out," Joseph Z. Cortes '81, an Economics concentrator and president of the Harvard Student Economics Association, said yesterday...
Despite the unwieldly nature of the topic, the writers, producers, and the cast of Leaders of Tomorrow have succeeded in bringing the school to the stage. They have wrestled the Harvard experience, thinly veiled, into episodes in the lives of five students at Ivy League University. They neatly sidestep the first pitfall of the project: defining its scope. Equally ingenious in defining its form, their answer to the theatrical question, "What is Harvard?" becomes a cohesive production of songs, dance numbers, skits and monologues...
...Gundzinger faces her new future mother-in-law alone for the first time. Gundzinger has just thrown up, and is embarrassed. The older woman is embarrassed by Gundzinger's embarrassment. The two, who do not get along but desperately want each other's approval, cautiously search for a palatable topic of conversation. Finally Kate asks, "What color dress are you wearing (to the wedding)?" The older woman looks surprised by the question's inanity. "Blue," she answers. "Lovely," says Kate. What else can they say? Another opportunity for two human beings to "connect" has slipped...