Word: constraints
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three tones of voice or registers of diction, or, simply, by being short. As Helen Vendler has noted, the situations and contexts in an Ashbery poem relate not to one another but to the poem's (emotional) center. The poems are often strongest when some structural constraint adds to their centripetal force...
...much of the history is presented flatly; neither the faceoff between the Red Guard and the White Guard nor the constraint by censors of the protagonist writer Sergei Leontevich Maksudov feel effectively threatening or looming or tragic. The play, in fact, ultimately derives its strength not from the drama of its history but in spite of it. What is most engaging about the play is not the main plot but the subplot, not the tragic sequences tracing Stalinist repression but the comic theatrical sequences woven into the interstices. The comic representation of life at the Moscow Art Theatre...
Lately I have begun to doubt whether we will ever see the old system of ordered choice, and that's a shame. But we must work within this unchangeable constraint as we try to make Harvard's houses the most comfortable communities possible...
...were approached to sign various letters. As I have previously mentioned, we undergo an intricate process before taking a stance such as this. My Co-President Muneer Ahmad responded to those who asked him to sign that he could not even consider signing the letter because of the time constraint... Mukesh Prasad '93 Co-President Harvard-Radcliffe South Asian Association
...also given the task of issuing a report commenting on the quality of life during students' first year at Harvard. I attempted to convey this to The Crimson reporter, but the reporter I was dealing with repeatedly asked me if I considered signing the letter because of the time constraint...