Word: impressionable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It isn't my intention here to defend Prop 1-2-3. Without being incredibly well-informed on the issue, my impression is that Prop 1-2-3 is an ill-conceived and somewhat sleazy move by the real estate industry that wouldn't appreciably improve Cambridge's housing problems...
When Crimson Key members shout "bitch!" every time the female protagonist comes on screen, first-year students get the impression that sexist attitudes are acceptable here. For all their claims about not singling out women, Crimson Key members would never shout classic racist epithets or homophobic slurs at the movie...
In Lia, however, the myth of the New World plutocrat persisted. This was still the impression that Gatzoyiannis gave when he met the boat that carried his motherless children from Piraeus to New York City in 1949. Gage, then nine, recalls his father's "gleaming black oxfords, gray overcoat, and...
The De Klerk family tree is deeply rooted in politics. A great-grandfather sat in the now defunct Senate, and Uncle Johannes Strijdom served as Prime Minister from 1954 to 1958. The family often vacationed at Strijdom's summer estate in the Kruger National Park. The brothers' indomitably conservative father...
The idea behind the march--and it's an idea that has worked again and again--is that if you can make a strong enough impression, someone's going to notice. Unfortunately, the paltry Harvard contingent probably won't enhance that impression very much.