Word: contact
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...Though your face is charming, it?s the wrong face. / It?s not her face, but such a charming face / That it?s all right with me.? The song is a declaration of promiscuity, and as Mitchell sings he glances around the room, being serially flirtatious: making laser eye contact, leaving a lady in a puddle of love and moving on for the next conquest. For the instrumental break soars into a scat-singing riff; fake-exhausted after the flourish, he pants in 4/4 time. Big laugh from the audience, or rather, audible smiles. Before the first number is over...
...treating survivors with undue skepticism or denigration and the issue itself with callous indifference creates an atmosphere that affects all of us. Women’s interactions with men are limited by the bounds of caution, as women are always at some level concerned with the possibility of sexual contact occurring against their will. Men are, by virtue of societal silence, left largely clueless as to how to start frank and honest conversation about sex, and occasionally find themselves in situations where they are crossing boundaries they would not have wanted to cross if only they had known...
Teachers in schools with economically and ethnically diverse populations face a different set of challenges in working with parents. In less affluent districts, many parents don't have computers at home, so schools go to some lengths to make contact easier. Even 20 minutes twice a year for a conference can be hard for families if parents are working long hours at multiple jobs or have to take three buses to get to the school. Some teachers visit a parent's workplace on a Saturday or help arrange language classes for parents to help with communication. Particularly since a great...
...several helpful people in Los Angeles who offered me their business cards and encouraged me to contact them with questions. I was offered an internship for the summer as well. The most important part of Harvardwood 101, however, was that it gave me a good perspective about life in the entertainment industry. Harvardwood 101 is an opportunity that should not be missed...
Everyone is inclined to lament that outside of the classroom, faculty-student contact is relatively rare, but no one seems to expect otherwise. We interact with faculty members regularly in formal circumstances such as seminars and office hours; a small number of individual students enjoy one-on-one contact as research aides or thesis advisees. But apart from receptions at conferences or panels, there are no other occasions to interact in a more relaxed setting with our professors...