Word: confer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scene: The White House, on a recent weekend. After an intermission in strategy talks about Viet Nam, President Nixon rejoins his foreign affairs adviser, Henry Kissinger. They confer...
Sometimes they'd order coffee or cigarettes and sometimes they'd just stare and the ladies behind the counter would confer and decide what the person wanted. Then the patient would hand over his dime or thirtyfive cents, just like a poor kid in a candy store, and shuffle away with his purchase...
...sometimes be accepted. It is rarely "accepted": we aren't here to accept or reject: we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations) the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course-and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders" -you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own: seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically...
...sometimes be accepted. It is rarely "accepted": we aren't here to accept or reject; we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations) the more interesting an essay to likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only plaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically...
...Cartney, a Black professor of African Literature from Columbia, was hired to assist the students in the development of such a program. As of several weeks ago, the proposed school would exist as a separate department within the School of Liberal Arts and would not be able to confer a degree upon its graduates...