Word: cocoon
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These are the things you see only later: that they were trying to create a cocoon of childhood for us, long after our peers were clicking through math enrichment CD-ROMs and beefing up their test-taking skills. That despite the practical problems of such undertakings, creating a viable alternative to the American education system is a courageous...
...Near the end of a brilliant career, at age 38 Bonds is widely regarded as the best hitter in the game today - perhaps the best ever. He is also a riddle wrapped in a cocoon of handlers and protected by a bulky "Barry Bonds" elbow pad. He is famously disliked, by sportswriters, certainly (Rick Reilly, for one, wrote an unkind, and unfair, piece about Bonds in Sports Illustrated last year), and by at least some of his teammates. One in Pittsburgh, where he played his first seven years, famously said he would "rather lose without Barry than win with...
...situation is infinitely more complicated when a couple makes friends as a couple and there are no clear loyalties. For starters, many married people read the divorce of close friends as a threatening act. It breaks the cocoon that surrounds the foursome. The intact couple sometimes doesn't want to confront the fact--or let each other see--that there's life after divorce. The now separated friend becomes a third wheel on outings. And, suggests matrimonial lawyer Robert S. Cohen, many wives feel threatened by newly single women in their midst. Finally, people don't know what...
...lengthy separations and intense extramarital relationships. Divorce was less common then than now, and it suited both partners to live their lives in parallel compartments. Architecture kept Ned, sane and he "poured his imagination and emotion into other people's houses." Emily spent most of her life in a cocoon of mysticism and fashionable causes and in writing thousands of letters to her absent husband. In the end these letters, and the replies she received, became the marriage and form the basis of this book. Through their letters they expressed their true emotions. "You would not really love...
...It’s time that I leave my Harvard cocoon and try something new,” DeGreeff said. “I felt the need to try something new so I started looking at jobs at boarding schools and small colleges...