Word: waylaid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, many students said that the rapid paceof events will put them behind in their normalwork schedule, and their academic lives will, as aresult, be waylaid on the road to mid-term exams...
...older, world-weary image--a touch of gray at the temples, a wistfulness for waylaid innocence--that made Mastroianni a worldwide star. As the Dolce Vita gossipist, the moviemaker in Fellini's great 8 1/2 (1963) and the writer in Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte (1961), he moved like a man in perpetual postcoital ennui, elevating spiritual passivity to a metaphysic and a fashion statement. "Mastroianni" became a kind of emotional cologne for the modern male. And no one wore the style as elegantly as he: the dark suit, the narrow tie, the eyes of a man who's been...
BACK HOME IN NEW YORK CITY, HER friends and relatives know Lori Berenson as a compassionate idealist, an innocent waylaid by her concern for the poor and oppressed of Latin America. Rhoda Berenson, a community-college physics teacher, says the very notion of her 26-year-old daughter's being involved in violence "is absolutely ridiculous." A friend since junior high school, Daniel Radosh, finds it "hard to reconcile what they are saying about her with the gentle person I know...
...many colleges, a year spent studying abroad is well-integrated into the curriculum as a significant part of the college experience. However, at Harvard, some students say their plans for foreign study have been waylaid in bureaucratic hassle and lack of administrative support...
Before the salvation of marriage can progress, society requires an encompassing consensus that there is a problem. Currently, evolving such a consensus is being waylaid by an ideological word game. As long as the term family is used to cover both the "real" family and its antithesis -- the single-parent version -- the question of whether a society can do without families is hopelessly obfuscated. Moreover, a challenging thesis is hidden: the thesis that it does not matter which social arrangements adults devise to bring up children. It is implied (rather than demonstrated) by calling single- parent households "families" that...