Word: boastfulness
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Even the specialists have difficulty. "Frequently you can't tell that anything is wrong until you see them play," explains Dr. Alice Brandfonbrener, director of Northwestern University's program. Some clinics boast practice rooms and videotaping equipment. Solutions can be as simple as recommending a reduced performance schedule, muscle-strengthening exercises or changes in diet. Actors and singers with voice difficulties are often told to avoid mucus-producing foods like milk and cheese. Technique may also be modified. Eric Jensen, a jazz guitarist in San Francisco with persistent pain in his left arm, was advised to shorten the scale lengths...
Harvard's lightweights can't boast of the same recent successes that their heavyweight counterparts can. But based on steady improvement over the course of the last two seasons, their preseason hopes are just as high...
...most other universities, such poor security and lack of concern for students' safety is unheard of. Unlike Harvard, twenty-four-hour walking and driving escort services are standard at campuses across the country. The lack of such measures contradicts the reputation for safety about which admissions officers boast to prospective freshmen...
Readers are not to be blamed if they keep an eye on the silverware. People who boast of their integrity bear close watching: they may not be outright thieves, but it is a good bet that their righteousness masks a shifty character. So A Friend from England is an ironic title, unless Brookner is deluding herself -- and there is not much chance of that...
Christopher Whittle likes to boast that his company specializes in "guerrilla media." Right now the management of many major U.S. magazines is inclined to agree with him. Whittle's Knoxville-based Whittle Communications is preparing to assault the publishing industry with an audacious plan that would effectively ban many of the country's most popular magazines from a high- profile setting: doctors' waiting rooms. What is more, the 40-year-old publisher is so sure of success that he has already proclaimed victory without firing a shot. Declares Whittle: "The battle is virtually over, and we took no prisoners...