Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Realizing the extent of the friend's ignorance and with ulterior motives in mind): Well, since you're not wearing it, could I borrow...
...contend that Steele's speech was void of any new or interesting social thought. He obviously failed to recognize the contradictions in his work and in himself. After reading his work and hearing his lecture, I would argue that perhaps Steele himself is an "affirmative action baby," to borrow a phrase from Steven Carter. I find it hard to believe that an English scholar who has been an open critic of affirmative action would have the audacity to present some opaque social theories to the Harvard community. I think that if steele is to continue advocating that African-Americans...
...either copied of paraphrased. This seems like a reasonable compromise between those who are sticklers for honesty and those who quaintly insist that students should actually do their own work. Most importantly, it would free students of any unwarranted, nagging fears that they are somehow cheating when they borrow ideas or words from printed solutions...
Students who are lucky enough to get syllabi are possessing of a sufficient status symbol to be considered middle class. The lower classes cower in corners straining to get the merest glance of the professor. Often they will try to borrow a syllabus in order to appear of a higher class, but the pitiful pose collapses as the rightful owner reposseses his prized Xerox. But the syllabus-bearing middle class attempts frauds of its own. Some, for example, perch on radiators and try to look as comfortable in their makeshift accomodations as do the nobility in their plush aisles...
This poor attempt at whimsy is not only not funny, but highly offensive. To borrow these terms from the Marquis de Sade is to ignore his extensive legacy of physical and sexual abuse against numerous innocent women...