Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offer courses, tutorials are the essence of its program. In a letter to the faculty committee, social Studies said that, "In principle, the junior tutorial is meant to serve as an anchor of sorts for the student's program." The letter adds that "Most students develop their senior thesis topics in the course of their junior tutorials." It would seem to make writing a thesis difficult if a student's program is "anchored" to a totally unrelated topic...
...memoirs, Henry Kissinger makes a much better case for gossip. To him, Washington social life is a brutal place, "geared substantially to power, its exercise and its decline ... the topic of who is 'up' and who is 'down' is all consuming." People in Government meet formally by day but get to know one another only at night: "It is at their dinner parties and receptions that the relationships are created without which the machinery of Government would soon stalemate itself." This suggests that gossip is too important to be left to gossip writers, who occupy...
...sparseness is out the window, and with it the cuteness and understatement. Every song now attempts universality of topic, and is cluttered with synthesizer of horns to the point of giving a headache. "Too much information in my brain," complains one song. "One world is enough for all of us," declares another (as opposed to three, get it?). The problem is that these two sentiments (neither very profound) are practically contradictory. In trying to make a record encompassing the whole world, the Police show how their knowledge and talent can get muddled by self-consciousness...
...three-year chase after an ivory Romanesque cross. Despite the warnings of colleagues that the cross might prove a forgery, Hoving, inspired by the descriptions of its incriptions, begins to track it down in 1960. The owner of the cross, a greasy Yugoslav with the unlikely name of Ante Topic Mimara, finally lets Hoving see the piece, and its beauty confounds him. Then, the hard part: The Met, where Hoving is assistant curator of the Medieval Department and the Cloisters, must outlast the competition and fork over...
Sexton added that the most controversial topic taken up at the conference was the relationship between gas cooking and respiratory health. Some studies have linked the presence of gas stoves in homes and reduced lung function in children. Nitrogen dioxide, one of the by-products of gas combustion, has long been thought the causative agent...