Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such is not the case at other colleges. Of the four schools surveyed, all offer a selection of meal plans that allow students to choose the number of meals per week they wish to purchase...
...wish that if I wanted to eat at the off-times they had a place to go," says Robert E. Schlesinger...
...aspects we have chosen as our themes are the impulse to create meanings for the (at first) unfamiliar panoply of American nature; the "American grain" of direct, pragmatic vision and craftsmanship; the urge to visionary expression of spiritual experience; the wish to implant grandeur in society; the move into cities and the obsession with their heroic technology; the desire to commemorate events and remember exemplary people; and the fondness for breaking (and defending) cultural molds...
...even though it was so new." The man who adapted classical architecture to the American Arcadia was Thomas Jefferson, whose home, Monticello, Hughes visits. Standing amid the emblems of Jefferson's artistic and scientific achievements, Hughes cites him as the "one person from all the dead Americans that I wish I could talk to" because of "the overwhelmingly attractive cast of his mind...
...appreciate the wish of the Directors to give as great a variety of food as possible, but dislike this particular variety. Finally, we believe that food which is, as the first petition showed, objectionable to nearly two hundred men, should be no longer served in Memorial Hall," the men wrote...