Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew it was coming; you dreaded it; it was sometimes painful, but not as painful as you thought; and afterwards, you felt like a million bucks, like you could walk right out into the rest of the world, blow in anybody's face and not feel insecure about bad breath...
...think the School got a little out of breath," Ramsey Professor of Political Economy Richard J. Zeckhauser said at the time...
...course, we're not holding our breath...
Life requires of excellence a balance of one's reading and one's dreams, between one's life exertions and one's life fantasies, between the world's vicious self-destructiveness and its breath-taking beauty...
...College is sympathetic to the problem of underrepresentation, but in apologizing for its short-comings, cites the low pool figures for people of color in the same breath with its concerns regarding lowered standards. But to imply that looking to hire minority faculty automatically risks lowering standards, as this dangerous bipartite excuse does, can only lead to undue bias against all candidates of color, qualifications notwithstanding. In addition, with such a pronounced lack of support for ethnic studies by the relevant departments, excellent minority professors in this field face the double Harvard whammy of being a person of color...