Word: acquaintence
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This year he is attending Alpha, a weekly CI Bible study “trying to acquaint people with Christianity,” according to Houston, although he has missed two of the four meetings...
...House dining halls or just walking through campus. We are glad to see Summers’ efforts to improve communication between students and Mass. Hall and trust that they will continue. We also hope Summers recognizes that it will take more than a single hour each month to acquaint himself with the undergraduate student body. During his first session of office hours yesterday afternoon, students who arrived after the 4 p.m. starting time were turned away, and Summers had to stay long after 5 p.m. to speak with the undergraduates who wanted to meet the president. Now that students know...
...businessperson or school principal initiates it, a partnership must meet a genuine need. It must have specific, agreed-upon goals as well as benchmarks to determine whether it's on course to meet them. It should have top-level support from the business and the school, an orientation to acquaint teachers and volunteers with the undertaking at hand and someone to co-ordinate their efforts. A signed agreement is useful not only to clarify the intent and terms of the partnership but also, and perhaps more important, to celebrate its initiation...
...admirers, the unidentified narrator, Trip Fontaine, etc. The audience has trouble keeping count of all these faces and names, and no character materializes as the focus of the story. A multi-faceted character approach as a literary convention was a critical success, because Jeffrey Eugenides could verbally and descriptively acquaint the audience with the characters in novel form; but when utilized in film, a director is left with condensed screen time, visual cues, and limited dialogue to get at exposition and character development...
Allyn attempts to give an entire history of American sexuality in a brief chapter, as if to acquaint the reader with all of the legends and values the sexual revolution attempts to destroy. While rhetorically intelligent, Allyn's pseudo-academic style makes his statements appear utterly ridiculous. Among the fine points of his introduction are such highly stylized claims as, "The sexual revolutionaries of the sixties and seventies were the truest of leaders. They made people realize that the future does not have to look like the past." The entire book is replete with sweeping claims about American society...