Word: variously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the Core's philosophy, to provide a diverse introduction to various areas of study, is a good one in theory, in practice it is a different story. Because of the questionable quality of many Core classes, we support any opportunity for exemption from them. Until now, it had seemed that the Council was similarly committed to freeing students from the weight of requirements. Apparently, though, a misguided belief in the need for college instruction in science disciplines for which A.P. classes prepare students equally well has gotten the better of the Council's members...
When Chik was finally tracked down weeks later, club officials said he refused to surrender club assets, the only complete membership list, various financial records and the sole key to the club's post office box, where bank statements arrive...
...stage for the ensuing action. This jumping from one conversation to the next requires, of course, a perfect knowledge of the text and an exquisite sense of timing, which at times is lacking. But the production moves past some initial roughness and with fine work by various members of the cast, quickly draws the audience into Ionesco's absurdist world...
Altered photos of Victor supposedly at various parties and photo shoots appear, and he is threatened with edited photos of him ostensibly in the act of murder. It's the ultimate payback for someone obsessed with looks. This 'real truth' is less shallow than the original world of glitz we are used to--and at the same time purely superficial...
...moral, he argues, is often in fact immoral. "[E]ven as our responses to particular cases often are good indications of behavior's moral status," he writes, "so, also, they often aren't any such thing at all." He dedicates the rest of his text to explaining, through various puzzles and analogies, why "living high and letting die" is immoral behavior...