Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gass's precision with words as physical objects that gives these somber stories a weight out of proportion to their size. In more than one sense, they have a rare specific gravity...
There is little doubt that William Gass is speaking for himself when one of the characters in this collection of short stories says: "I can't tolerate any more of my sophistries about spirit, mind, and breath. Body equals being, and if your weight goes down, you are the less." Coming from a man who makes his living teaching philosophy at Purdue University, such a flat-out assertion seems a little unusual. But then William James pledged in his diary to "care little for speculation; much for the form of my action...
Once B.U. began its African Studies Center, Harvard reportedly made an informal decision to let B.U. carry the weight of African studies in the local area...
Columbia agreed to pay for the construction of the community gym and cover the maintenance cost of $75,000 a year. The gym would include a regulation-size basketball court, lockers, showers, weight rooms, and a 75-foot-by-20-foot swimming pool...
Fresh from its record-smashing season debut last weekend, the varsity heavy-weight crew takes on M.I.T. and Princeton on Lake Carnegie at Princeton today...