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That the student activists of Berman's generation believed a political revolution to be within their grasp may seem a little puzzling from the vantage point of 30 years, but is perhaps understandable as a product of youthful exuberance: Berman himself lapses into a romantic nostalgia when he describes what it felt like to be in the vanguard of something new and magnificent--in politics, in culture, in the way human beings treat each other.
Critics praise Goodman's finely honed descriptive abilities and "instinctive grasp of familial dynamics, the ways in which dreams and emotional habits are handed down ...
The London Times , the Telegraph 's main rival, said that by this fall Canadian legal reforms should make the peerage possible and noted rather archly that "[t]he prestige of a noble title is now within Mr Black's grasp, but ...
The University of Colorado and New Mexico State University, quick to grasp that their role is to funnel students into professional schools and high-income jobs, not to burden them with fine points of style, have already adopted the Intelligent Essay Assessor; so has the Graduate Management Admission Test.
Dublin's Irish Independent, reporting optimism in Dublin as well as London, said in an editorial that "the prize is within the negotiators' grasp": "If they fail to seize it, they will surrender to the sinister men lurking in the wings.