Word: establishment
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Kaplan's ability to establish Whitman's relationship with America, the only continuous union in his unmarried life, gives his biography an Emersonian twist. Covering the terrain of Whitman's life in about 400 pages, Kaplan repeatedly and judiciously quotes his subject's poems, prose, letters and diaries to lend his biography not only authenticity but a Whitmanesque spirit that a historical and strictly narrative book would have lacked. Thus, much of Walt Whitman: A Life is interior, approaching Whitman's experience through his own descriptions...
...Laxalt of Nevada and Jake Garn and Orrin Hatch of Utah. Sagebrush Rebellion leaders now plan to concentrate their battle for control of the federal lands in Congress, where both Hatch and Nevada's Democratic Representative Jim Santini have introduced bills that would set up a commission to establish an "orderly process" for transferring land to the states. Though they have little
...criminals. We are ready and willing to meet an agonizing death to establish that we are political prisoners." So saying, seven inmates between the ages of 25 and 32, all of them convicted as Irish Republican terrorists (three for murder), went on a hunger strike on Oct. 27 in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison, 13 miles outside Belfast. As the prisoners passed the 40th day of their fast last week, there were increasing fears that one or more might die. If so, the troubled province could be in for a new round of bloodshed and sectarian violence. In sympathy...
Still, Mary Gray, a mathematician at American University, says too little is known about mathematical reasoning to conclude that genetics plays a major part. Another possible objection to the study: showing that the best girls score lower than the best boys does not establish a general sexual difference. Yet the authors argue that results did not change when the study was broadened from the top 2% to 5%, and would probably have stayed the same in samples of lower-scoring students. Besides, say the authors, most of the concern has been about intellectually able girls...
...Faculty this week changed all that when it voted overwhelmingly to establish an honors concentration in literature that will begin operations immediately and accept its first group of concentrators this spring...