Word: mastering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...goal for the new century is "sustainable development": continued economic growth without environmental destruction. Is that possible? It depends on how well we understand that humanity is part of nature, not lord and master...
...universal power of varying a few basic themes. He said things clearly. He distilled human emotion to its essence. In a few tiny lines - a circle, a dash, a loop, and two black spots - he could tell anyone in the world what a character was feeling. He was a master at portraying emotion, and took a simple approach to character development, assigning to each figure in the strip one or two memorable traits and problems, often highly comic, which he reprised whenever the character reappeared...
...dyslexia had prevented him from learning to read until he was in the third grade, by high school David was a pretty good student, an excellent debater and so proficient a bridge player that he hired himself out as a paid tournament partner for adults trying to rack up master points...
...translating Bronte's romantic classic to the stage. Jane, the plain but plucky orphan, travels from the home of an aunt who hates her to a strict religious school that tries to drum the spirit out of her, to a position as governess in a fine house whose master, Mr. Rochester, is hiding a dark secret upstairs. There are talkative servants, glittery parties, mysterious doings in the middle of the night and, as usual, the triumph of goodness and sincerity over the restrictions of class and social propriety...
...saddened by this terrible and senseless tragedy," said Pforzheimer House co-master Sue McCarthy. "We are reassured by the response of this wonderful community. Everyone from the custodians to the University police to all the students, faculty and friends of Shira...