Word: unaffectedness
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Amid all the uproar over Harvard's links to exclusive all-male final clubs last year, one elite Harvard institution stood quietly by, unaffected by the campus hoopla. Everyday around noon its male and female members, like their male cousins in adjoining stately homes, took out their keys and entered...
Some Congressmen are not so sure. "Somewhere there may be a race of humans who will take $1,000 from perfect strangers and be unaffected by it," dryly notes Congressman Frank. Says Congressman Leon Panetta of California: "There's a danger that we're putting ourselves on the auction block...
The Reagans actually seemed rather proud of their son's acting debut. "Like father, like son," the President said after his press conference last week. Ron told his parents that he was going to appear on the show, but he did not ask for their permission nor tell them what...
This is not to say that Mendelssohn's music is merely happy talk. One of the greatest prodigies in musical history, young Felix wrote 13 symphonies for string orchestra before the age of 15 and produced a full-blown work of genius at age 17 in the dazzling, quicksilver Overture...
Both Titania and Oberon, each some 1,000 miles in diameter, have huge, distinctive features. Voyager spotted a three-mile-high mountain on Oberon and a valley running all the way across the visible surface of Titania. On the moon Ariel, 730 miles across, three linear patterns seemed to resemble...