Word: voided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shortly after news broke of the Greenfeld decision, a group of 37 sociology graduate students--out of 70 total in the department--drafted a petition bemoaning the "enormous void" created by her departure...
...would be all too easy to give up and say that only expensive PR campaigns matter to the voters any more. Tsongas' success in the Northeast showed that people are ready for an end to the hype. Jerry Brown's lowbudget campaign has filled the void Tsongas left behind. The Connecticut primary resulted in a one percentage point difference between Brown and Clinton, and polls indicate that there would have been a majority for Tsongas had he not quit. Showy packaging isn't everything...
STAN GETZ/KENNY BARRON: PEOPLE TIME (Verve). When the legendary tenor saxophonist Stan Getz died of cancer last June at age 64, the master of cool riffs and sultry melodic lines left an immense void in the jazz world. This two-volume set of duets with pianist Kenny Barron, recorded in Copenhagen only four months before Getz's death, combines passion, urgency and haunting beauty in a triumphant last testament...
...communism (and it is the end, its temporary survival in China notwithstanding) is something we have not yet been able to assimilate. It is like suddenly being without a familiar pain, like the void left by a missing limb...
...phenomenon points to a void that our society has left in people's lives. They don't need Sartre to find existence meaningless. In New Perspectives Quarterly, author Christopher Lasch laments the loss of institutions of "organic unity" like family, neighborhood and religion, a loss to which "liberalism never had an answer...