Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other commencement speeches are less coherent, relying on pretty metaphors rather than cogent messages. Speaking at the Juilliard School, Jane Alexander, chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, made a hazy comparison between life and sailing. "You chart a trek where no one's sailed before," she said, quoting the poet Samuel Hazo. "You rig. You anchor Up. You said." A nice almost inspirational image, but not very useful advice to the Class...
Rudenstine said the vacancies pale in comparison to the situation when he arrived at Massachusetts Hall in 1991. At that time, the new president was faced with nine administrative appointments...
Khoi T. Luu `94: I think it depends on your context of comparison...To the outside world, we're week. Within the family and community we're sexist, and wife beaters...
...faxed response to a list of questions, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles warned against a comparison of "apples and oranges...
Recognizing this, Amnesty International and the national press have moved beyond the specifics of Fay's case to a broader criticism of the inhumanity of corporal punishment. A comparison of our two justice systems, however suggests that it may be ours that is less humane...