Word: angular
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...Angular, amiable and seldom at a loss for a quip, Pickard, a blunt Queens native, recently joked to colleagues that life reminded him of "Groundhog Day," the Bill Murray farce about a man doomed to repeat the same 24 hours over and over again. "The briefings begin at 5:55 a.m. By 9 a.m. I'm brain dead, and we're just starting," he told one friend...
Weiss’s piece, “The Four Temperaments,” was originally choreographed by Balanchine, the Russian-born ballet dancer and choreographer who moved ballet away from fairy tales and fluffy tutus and instead emphasized balance and angular, technical movement...
...witnessed the "angular" approach for myself two years ago when Cornell University permitted me to observe its admissions meetings. In Cornell's distinct parlance, renaissance students were dubbed "spread too thin." The admission officers also had a highly refined ability to detect whether kids were undertaking activity after activity to pad their resumes - or out of genuine enthusiasm. Sometimes this was just a hunch, other times committee members added up the time students claimed to spend on various extracurriculars only to realize the total exceeded the number of hours in a school week. In the final decision-making process, idiosyncrasy...
...Admissions officers are drawn to "angular kids, those with a much more focused interest or talent...
...determined. They do everything right and most of them don't have a chance of getting in. . .unless they discover a protein or publish a novel, they are going to look a lot like all of the other qualified applicants." Instead, Toor says, admissions officers are drawn to "angular kids, those with a much more focused interest or talent...