Word: akin
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Instead, the gender debate, with its unacknowledged sexist undertones, continues to drone on. Sexism is akin to any other form of discrimination, and should not be tolerated. The greatest hope we can entertain is that Faust, by rising above this white noise, will effect positive change for the University and prove her detractors wrong...
...small world of Washington, there are many who have simply come to know a certain candidate personally and feel something akin to a social obligation. Says a high-level Democratic activist: "Your children are in the same school. You see them in nonpolitical circumstances. People wind up making choices that surprise people because of existing loyalties." There's the story of the young ex-Clinton aide who failed to sign on to Clinton's campaign and instead went to work for Senator Joe Biden. Why? Because Biden gave her husband his first job, and she felt...
...introductory note that this purposeful redundancy reveals “an important turning point…through Hawthornes’ eyes and then through Emerson’s or Louisa May Alcott’s before it is finally completely described.” The actual effect is something akin to dozing off over your chem textbook and reading the same page about 20 times. That’s not to say that Cheever’s work is completely devoid of content. From time to time she makes insightful connections between the authors’ journalized experiences and their...
...same as the Coop’s) at much lower prices. The site does make a commission, though it donates its proceeds to charity. Coop employees would have none of this, and they promptly expelled the UC members from the store, telling The Crimson that ISBN numbers are akin to their “intellectual property.” This is not shocking: Coop employees would like to keep their jobs. Allowing student government wonks disguised as customers to enter the Coop to gather inventory so they can compete with the Coop would undermine the store’s core...
...akin to the argument that tries to make movies art by defining them as pictures seen on a wall (museum pieces) rather than illustrated stories. Yet Ingmar Bergman and Preston Sturges, to name just two great "directors," are primarily not visual stylists but writers. Similarly, Kurtzman and Spiegelman are remarkable less for their draftsmanship than for conjuring a world and giving it narrative shape, density and bite. You don't see their work so much as you read...