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...number of other solutions have been suggested, but most have been awkward and clumsy, and therefore not solutions. This one works. --Myron S. Kaufmann '43 The author is an editor of The Crimson
...addition, there is an obvious generation gap between CAA's Old Guard and the Young Turks who hold sway over many of the agency's most valuable clients. The awkward management structure Ovitz put in place before his departure had representatives of the younger generation in charge of operations, with oversight provided by three older co-chairmen...
Following an awkward silence, Lewis said he "noted the question...
...risk when they made race an avowed category of diversity. They may have hoped that race would cause no more trouble than geography, that finding able blacks would be as easy, or as hard, as finding able Californians. The risk was that nothing untoward would emerge, no awkward fact calling into question the association of diversity and merit. Unfortunately, once race is on the list of things to look for, it is hard to take it off unobtrusively...
Lewis is correct to say that "first-year" can make for some awkward linguistics. If there were a "grammatically convenient and linguistically graceful alternative [to 'freshman'] that could be used everywhere," he wrote, he would prefer using it. It is true that "first-year" can make for some awkward constructions, but when has less-than-graceful wording ever stopped Harvard before? And schools that have already adopted "first-year," such as Columbia, Williams, Brandeis, Bowdoin, Trinity, Bates and Colby seem to have no problem with...