Word: blunting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Francisco where she discovers the circle of early women comix artists who would establish "Wimmin's Comix," the pioneering feminist underground comic book. While acknowledging the importance of her meeting this group, her characterization of the core contributors ("a backbiting, nasty group of women") typifies the author's blunt and often surprising revelations in this book...
...Chieko usually wears a miniskirt. If I wear a miniskirt, I feel watched. But, the 16-year-old Chieko is not like that. She is open and blunt, is always so edgy. Her anger, passion, the distance with her father, the loss of her mother, she is dealing with all these problems and she is always looking for someone to be hugged by, not necessarily sexually, but also for some warmth, her simmering tension, that's the kind of thing I created during the year. Alejandro told me that he would give me the role only a week before shooting...
...mediator between often-tribal faculty departments, bringing together, for example, scientists and philosophers to tackle the academic riddles of the future. Past presidents, from Lawrence H. Summers to Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, have adopted a confrontational management style, attempting to force through initiatives with a blunt stick. If we, as observers of Harvard University, learned anything from the rapid downfall of former University President Summers, it is that no man—now, no person—can push Harvard in his or her own direction as its leader...
Last week, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) reached a milestone. In blunt and forceful language, a new report prepared by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development acknowledges what students have been saying for years: Harvard has a pedagogy problem. The 86-page report recommends 18 concrete and sensible strategies for the improvement of teaching at Harvard, but if the report is to make more than a mere dent, its proposals must be brought to fruition. We hope that the Faculty, the new president, and the new dean of the Faculty will fast-track the implementation...
...five short months, there will again be a new president, the institution is direly in need of change, and the faculty is entrenched in its ways and on the whole resistant to much needed progress. It is hard to fathom Harvard’s 28th president being quite as blunt as Eliot was the outset of his administration—particularly in light of the events that transpired one year ago, which abruptly ended Lawrence H. Summers’ short tenure. Harvard is, however, badly in need of another Eliot, a dreamer who will take risks and challenge the Harvard...