Word: voided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This lack of guidance is my biggest gripe about my college experience. We felt and knew there was a void but found the male tutors little help except in preparing for graduate school. The two Radcliffe deans seemed oriented to PhD. work. Our education did not seem to have direction for itself. We had worked hard, harder than many of our Harvard classmates, and done well. We felt triumphant academically at graduation but very unsure...
...before, the author concentrates memory and feelings into a small space: "He had once heard Paul Tillich lecture at Chicago, and when he spoke of the void, bringing the word up from deep inside his body, you could feel it, feel the emptiness and the terror of the emptiness." That terror stalks Everett through seven separate phases, from early childhood to late middle age. After his mother's death in childbirth, young John is raised by maternal grandparents in Michigan. The introverted boy derives his notion of love from medieval romances, and the real world seems a strange, indecipherable...
Collective effort has enlarged the size of the hole but the basic concept remains the same. A year and a half or so ago the void in question was somewhere in the vicinity of the Mass. Ave, entrance to Harvard Yard. Gradually it moved down towards the Coop, and most recently it has taken up conspicuous residence between Lehman Hall and the Mug n' Muffin, where it occasionally shifts from one side of the street to the other...
...Israel before resumption of the Geneva talks. That non-decision was taken to mean that before the Lebanese-Israeli agreement was declared null and void, Syria and Lebanon would offer Israel firm guarantees against the infiltration of southern Lebanon by guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
...fervoe that surrounds Team U.S.A. has created a void. America's other stars--not to mention all other international personalities and aspects of the Olympics--have been underexposed, thus prevented from fostering widespread enthusiasm about the Olympics as a whole...