Word: vast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vast majority of our kids, the ones we love and never read about, make it through high school intact, without incident. They do the reading and sing in the choir and bag groceries after school and buy the class T shirt and don't pierce anything below their ears. And yet everything that happens to them is huge. Everybody matters: the teacher who hoists students' ambitions up to meet their potential, or the one who just ignores whatever they say until they stop saying anything; the nurse who takes students into her home to keep them from falling apart...
...many Harvard minorities, the feeling of alienation begins as soon as the theater schedule is published. The vast majority of directors at Harvard are not minorities, nor are the majority of featured playwrights. The Harvard Theater Database indicates that since 1995, August Wilson, a pivotal African-American playwright, has been performed once at Harvard, while European writer Tom Stoppard has graced the stage 4 times and Shakespeare...
...postmodern joys of the Information Age are that we finally know everything about what's happened, and we can choose from vast databases and with great ease. For the answers, we have the scientific straight and narrow if we wish, or we can page through literary traditions, or social practice, or minutiae. Our critics can tend to be our history-keepers if we're not careful, simply because they bother to remember what happened more than five years...
Both Emerson and the students appreciated the question and answer time. Emerson said he was glad for an opportunity to clarify his views, while members of the Muslim community took advantage of the time to expose what they saw as a vast number of generalizations in both Emerson's film and statements...
...Meanwhile, Gore finally played his ace in the hole with the party's left: the green vote. Gore's book "Earth in the Balance," published while he was campaigning for the vice presidency, scored big points with liberals. On Thursday, the VP proposed a vast increase in limits on offshore oil drilling in California and Florida. The proposal came with the proclamation that an environmental package would be central to Gore's campaign. As Bradley grapples to position himself as the candidate of the left, he'd better be ready for a green thumb...