Word: ashin
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Still, Gentlepeople upholds the values of yesteryear. Smoking and frequent drinking are taboo among members, and "we don't accept anyone who's hunter," says Ashin...
...Lots of people will use the world yente, which we hate here," says Annette Ashin, the vice-president. The Yiddish word has nagging connotations, says Astin. "It's not a flattering word...
...program opened last month when Lincoln Blake, a first-year English lecturer, invited one of his former English professors, the University of Chicago's Mark Ashin, to attend his morning classes. Ashin sat unobtrusively at the rear of the room, took notes, then conferred with Blake for an hour daily to pinpoint ways in which the class could have been improved. "We saw where he got off the track here, or had skipped over a point there," explains Ashin. Most helpful, recalls Blake, were Ash in's keen pointers on how "to use questions to bring the students...
...September 1919 a scrawny, big-eyed Navajo moppet entered the mission boarding school-one of the few beginners whom the mission truck did not have to carry off like a stray dog. Deloused, cropped, outfitted with blue work shirt, overalls, Leavenworth-made clodhoppers, named Myron Begay to replace Ashin Tso-n Bigé, quartered in dismal, overcrowded barracks, fed on 11? a day, Myron nevertheless preferred this atmosphere to life with his stepfather. When his mother came to take him home for the summer, he refused to go, saying he was "going on the Jesus Trail and be just like...