Word: rarer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could have been pretentious. It could have been desperate. But like much else in an entrancing entertainment show that only looks small and simple, it succeeds in making you feel good without making you feel stupid. That is a rare quality in an up number. It is an even rarer quality in the musical theater of the moment. -By Richard Schickel
...FAULT, though, lies not only with white insensitivity, but also with Black hypersensitivity. Often motivated by mistrust and misunderstanding, white separate themselves from Blacks in the dining halls and at parties. In Leverett House, for example, a handful of Blacks sit at tables which are predominantly white. But even rarer is the white who will comfortably sit at a table of all--or nearly all--Black students...
Under McMullan's one-man rule over both the news and editorial departments, the Herald (circ. 443,000) often managed the difficult feat of remaining fresh and vigorous while dominating its market and growing rich. McMullan also set a rarer standard among U.S. dailies: a newspaper that consistently is crisply written, carefully edited and cleanly organized. The lively news town and the combative editor were made for each other, and McMullan molded the Herald for the town. Says City Manager Howard Gary: "McMullan is the conscience that all cities need." Adds Kurt Luedtke, a former Herald colleague and author...
...most--"mentors" are crucial to the growth of the sense of oneself as a scholar. Yet a number of male Faculty members have told me recently that they intend henceforth to be much more careful in showing personal interest in women students. Invitations to coffee may become much rarer for women students It what I hear bears any relation to reality...
...have heard there are going to be some hockey games at Bright Center this weekend. In fact, that may be all you've heard. Crimson hockey squads don't go to the nationals every year--far from it--and even rarer does Harvard earn the privilege of home ice. Not-withstanding these facts, there's more to the sports-world than just Harvard hockey. Such...