Word: founding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...craze isn't limited to junior highschoolers. Harvard students have found that the game is an escape from the toils of college life, and an additional source of procrastination to avoid laborious schoolwork...
...results were predictable: members of Congress cited drugs. The corporate mogul cited the challenge of lowering production costs. The conservative columnist found "granting abberance the status of victimized minority," one of the most grave threats to national welfare...
...Brandeis University who served as a liason between visiting international officials and political groups in El Salvador Casolo was widely known as a devoted religious worker who played by the stringent political rules. Days after receiving an obscene and threatening phone call, the 28-year-old church worker found herself accused of hiding a huge cache of arms for the leftist guerillas...
Many of the works deal with the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment through Buddhism, often reflecting the contrast between the serenity found within the walls of the monastery and the turmoil of the outside world. The scroll entitled "Landscape," from the 15th century, exemplifies this conflict, combining a short composition with a delicate pen-and-ink sketch of a mountainside in a long, narrow tankaku format...
...Theme of Snow," by Muso Soseki, one of the most important figures in Japanese culture of the Kamakura period, is styled in semi-cursive, rhythmic Chinese script; this contrasts with the classical, fourth century style of Lan-chi Taolung's composition, which uses the elegant, slender stroked characters found in the work of the Chinese author Wang Hsi-chih...