Word: transiently
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence A. Buell agrees that there is a dearth of courses on ethnicity at Harvard. Buell says the school's ethnic studies curriculum, if there is such a thing, is "embryotic right now--scarcely there except for a transient few courses...
...Those "transient few courses" are listed on five pages in the course catalog, under "Courses Related to Ethnic Studies in the United States...
Children at the orphanage "Proyecto Casa Guatemala," on the Rio Dulce in Guatemala, grow under the loving if transient care of international volunteers. Travellers who stop here for a week or a month quickly learn to be mama and papa, as there is no permanent staff in charge of the children...
...question is whether George Bush, or Dan Quayle, or Pat Buchanan, or any politician or government, can have much to do with improving a society's values -- family or otherwise. Surely the values, if worth anything, must be more deeply embedded in the culture than the slogans of transient politicians. A Memphis construction company owner named J.D. Walker Jr. watched the Republican Convention last week and said in some disgust: "We want President Bush to know the American citizenry is not dumb. Don't keep telling us things will get better if we let you dictate...
...images in a dream, a voyage of revelation and discovery on Earth. Canosa uses skillful imagery to convey these scenes. Brightly colored cloths are used repeatedly in stark contrast to the darkness that fills the dream world of the Ex. They portray flowers, knowledge, shelter... Canosa sketches one vivid, transient image after another...