Word: clingingly
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...Harvard might consider a solution in place at a variety of other schools—a mandatory retirement age, after which professors would become emeritus professors. Such a measure would not only free up slots for junior professors, but would also dilute the influence of old guard professors who cling to the notion that junior professors must leave Harvard before securing tenure. While former University President Lawrence H. Summers claimed that tenure reform was a high priority so that Harvard could get a younger, more dynamic faculty, it is unclear whether the system is working any differently. Harvard needs...
...Today we cling to the Tudors, Gregory believes, because their moral questions have more obvious answers than ours. "When Henry decides to behead a young woman [his fifth wife, Catherine Howard], it's so obviously a bad thing to do that it's satisfying to the reader," Gregory says. "To judge it gives us comfort and certainty in an uncertain world." Sort of like reading a tabloid. A war may rage on, the stock market may tumble, but things are still O.K. if some sexy young star is behaving more badly than...
...anything but alone in her frustration with how traditional nonprofits are run. Too many charities cling to an outmoded mission statement, are slow to give volunteers assignments that excite them and perhaps shun older helpers. After enough vexation, "people throw up their hands and just say they'll start their own," says Marc Freedman, founder of Civic Ventures, which helps retirees find rewarding work and volunteer opportunities...
Chen doesn’t buy into the same things her classmates do. She doesn’t aspire to the marriage, the terrier, or that house in the country. Every blog entry is an effective "screw you" to the values to which the rest of us cling. She writes of feelings most of us would never dream of expressing, but feelings that many of us share. In a sense, Chen is a bizarre sort of martyr. She not only admits to having problems; she acknowledges that what she’s getting out of Harvard isn?...
...have a choice: you can cling to the Hard Problem, or you can shake your head in wonder and dismiss it. We've learned to do this before: it still seems as if the sun goes around the earth, but we know better. It's not all that hard, actually, now that we've made so much progress on the Easy Problems. Just...