Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student body at large. By all outward appearances, the Seneca is an organization whose sole purpose is to further the social and networking opportunities for all undergraduate women. Named after the famous 1848 women's convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., the club's mission statement states that they wish "to provide members with a network of women that fosters a strong sense of community and support--an outlet to share experiences and enjoy themselves in a non-competitive environment." Members "will comprise a diverse, dynamic and enthusiastic group chosen from an open application process" and will "develop their individual strengths...
...surprise that Schrempp is running the show. What is surprising is the way in which he is putting the two organizations together: forcing head-on confrontations, with the survivors left to run the company. "Most mergers have this deadly wish for harmony," says Schrempp. "We put the tough issues up front...
...novel set, for nearly all its 428 pages, in the teahouses of Kyoto in the 1930s. Just as last year, during the Capitol soap opera, the American public showed itself wiser than its rulers, so in our free time, it's proving itself more discerning than those who would wish to take it to the cleaners...
...with a pen whose drawn nib is drawing himself. To Steinberg, each drawing remade its author. It was both a mask and a card of identity, and a proof of existence as well. Never an expressionist, he liked, he said, "to make a parody of bravura. I wish to create a fiction of skill in the same sense that my writing is an imitation of calligraphy: fine flourishes that can't be deciphered, official stamps no one can read." What he didn't know about the semantics of style wasn't worth knowing...
...beauty." When reminded of this, said lady writer breaks into peals of embarrassed laughter. "I guess that was me," confesses Marina Warner, whose second book, Alone of All Her Sex, a study of the Virgin Mary, came out around the same time as the 1979 song. "I wish I could claim something of more distinction in terms of popular culture, but I don't know that...