Word: meaningful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forty-eight intellectuals from around the world recently assembled to help celebrate the sesquicentennial of Boston University by trying to find a metaphor for the age in which we live. It was an elegant game, but also inadvertently right for an age of television and drugs, in which the world...
Improbably, Deck finds his daughter enchanting. T.R. is movie-cute, meaning that an accomplished actress might make her hideously egocentric behavior appealing to an audience that knew it would all be over in two hours. Readers, facing a longer haul, may be excused for waiting for the film.
In the past 20 years, Tibet's exiled leader, Tenzin Gyatso, 54, has been nominated several times for the Nobel Peace Prize. His nonviolent Buddhist philosophy and advocacy of a peaceful approach to determining Tibet's future would seem to make the 14th Dalai Lama (meaning "Ocean of Wisdom") a...
The new inmates soon become immersed in the boot-camp routine. The day begins at 5 a.m., when correctional officer Robert Richards mashes down on a bank of toggle switches, unlocking the cell doors. "On line, on line, let's go!" he shouts, as bleary-eyed inmates appear at attention...
Gage relives his father's American Dream more passionately than his own. The author's exploits are subordinated to the old man's: his struggles to sustain his clan and make sure that his daughters find suitable (meaning Greek) husbands. Gatzoyiannis' death at age 90 provides a classic resolution. Surrounded...