Word: cud
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...ingenious, though abrupt, in justifying those decisions.” In contrast, Eliot, who had held the chair at the meetings of all faculties, usually listened when they voiced their concerns and tolerated their digressions. Eliot observed: “The Faculty is a ruminating animal, chewing a cud a long time, slowly bringing it into a digestible condition; then comes the process of assimilation which is gradual and invisible, so that bystanders do not perceive the growth and expansion of the animal...
...kind of Calvinist delayed-gratification guilt-trip principle by going to these things? Why am I still compelled, despite your rational logic? What sort of beast am I? Henry: Beasts of burden. That’s right, draft animals, kosher hunks of meat with cloven hooves and mouthfuls of cud. Together we are herded underground, into dark, crowded bars, to await the slaughter of the opening act, dreaming of DMB popping out and doing a 50-minute jam on “Tripping Billies.”“That One Show” is so dependent...
...stimulating discussions with fellow students and teaching fellows, are truly an intellectual wasteland. Required participation forces everyone to say something (whether constructive or not), and the talk usually devolves into a banal rehashing of the past week’s lectures. A typical section is like a cow chewing cud: ideas are digested a bit in one stomach, regurgitated briefly to be considered again, and finally swallowed. And the hated “response paper,” which asks students to reflect on the week’s reading in one short page, makes no pretense of requiring...