Word: particularizing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...know who they are--in fact, you probably make jokes about them. They wear grey sweats all the time, they consume obscene amounts of food, and their distinctly metallic-looking hair is usually wet--in the winter, frozen. I am talking about swimmers, women swimmers in particular...
...members interviewed yesterday expressed particular concern about what they see as a lack of minority participation in the organization...
...population of each House and section of the Yard--one delegate for every 75 students. Under the committee's proposal five students from every House and ten from the freshman Yard would serve as student government representatives. Members of the committee disagree on whether delegates should be elected to particular committees of the assembly, all of which would meet together twice a month, or to the assembly at large, allowing individual delegates to choose committee berths...
...government would have five standing committees: social, academics, residential, student services, and executive. If delegates were elected directly to particular committees, each House would have only one delegate on each committee. If delegates were allowed to choose their berths after election, a House might have several delegates on one committee and none on another--unless a proviso to the contrary were attached to election rules. Each committee would have about 15 members, and the entire structure would include 76 delegates, including six voting minority representatives (in the current assembly, the minority delegates are from the Asian American Association, the Black...
...serves this idiosyncratic work; it fails only on a final count. Brecht's aesthetic of the theater allowed for no catharsis; his works end by posing the question of the world to the audience and waiting for the answer. The fault does not seem to lie with anyone in particular--Epstein, the performers, or Gary Fagin's energetic conducting but somewhere towards the end of this Seven Deadly Sins an alchemical transformation fails to take place: the dilemmas facing the characters fail to become the dilemmas facing the audience. It understands them but feels no urgent need to make...