Word: furnish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...count on bringing home any holiday Harvardania--given what's on the shelves you're better off with yet another insignia sweatshirt. You could buy the $35 book of photographs. Harvard: A Living Portrait, but a free admissions brochure will furnish the same postcard visions of the University...
...between the layers of her own makeup. What equivalents can art find for depicting femaleness from within, as distinct from the familiar conventions of looking at it from outside through the eyes of another sex? What can it say about inwardness, fecundity, vulnerability, repression or resentment? How can it furnish a different substratum of meanings for the body? It is to such questions that Bourgeois's sculpture turns itself, not al ways successfully, but with a striking consistency and intensity. Some of it looks "unheroic," deficient in fully realized form, even incoherent: but these are by products...
...current plans specify that GW must furnish facilities such as classrooms, offices, and drill locations, while the Navy will end instructors and officers...
SUCH MOMENTS of grandeur furnish the perfect balance for the rest of Working which is sober and reflective. Briefly alone under the light, each secretary and steelworker and schoolteacher talks about life and the job, awkwardly philosophizes, and turns back to obscurity. Some evoke the original interview clearly, while others flower into song and acute, desperate commentary on their lives. Terkel evidently found articulate and thoughtful subjects for his research; instead of rambling "life's rough" sagas, he has documented startling flashes of insight...
...unhappy about not going to Beverly Hills High School and talking endlessly about do graduate students teach all the courses at Harvard and all those other tiresome questions." But tiresome or not, the admits--especially those who pass through the aid office--furnish him with years more of reflection on "how being here changes some people's lives." And occasionally circumstances allow him to continue the observation, through the expedient of a seat on the committees a that award the Sheldon, the knox, or the Luce. "You get a firsthand experience of the intensity of scholarly work--this incredibly esoteric...