Word: impressionism
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THERE are those who argue that affirmative action programs only stamp minorities with a feeling of inferiority. Such arguments are unfounded, but clearly a program like the proposed faculty exchange could create such an impression.
The bespectacled figure with the scraggly beard and the checkered kaffiyeh headdress was familiar. The manner in which he smilingly addressed Jews around the world -- with their traditional New Year's greeting, shanah tovah -- was not. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, who earlier had spoken to a meeting of...
The image of excellence steadily changes, but the impression of it is always the same (stirring, stunning, surprising), and just the fact of it is reassuring. Knowing that the field is fairly well complete, the spectators will be able to kick back over the next two weeks and trust their...
East Germany first competed in the Olympics under its own flag at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich. The hammer-and-compass banner was hoisted in victory 66 times, countering the G.D.R.'s image as a walled outcast with the impression of an athletic marvel. Four years later, in the...
"Clearly, he's voted one way on some issues and now changed his position," Walsh said. "My impression is that if [Boston Mayor] Ray Flynn told him to jump off a building, he'd do it, and I think that's not good leadership."