Word: culturese
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The committee will also address such issues as the lack of contact between freshmen and faculty and the small number of students who take courses dealing with cultures outside of our own.
Current U.S. levels of service sometimes appear lax to Americans when they return home from trips to Japan and Western Europe. While no country boasts the highest standards in every field, other cultures are more demanding of some services than America is. Most European countries insist on timely and efficient...
Other vets deny the prevalence of dope smoking and the depiction of military officers as either psychos or cowards. But John Wheeler, 42, a veteran who is president of the Center for the Study of the Viet Nam Generation in Washington and chairman of the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial Fund...
Khashoggi lives in two cultures. His identity is split between East and West, between the simple white thobe he wears with fellow Arabs and the handmade cashmere jackets he wears with Westerners, between the austere ethos of Mecca and the hedonism of Marbella. "When I am among you," he says...
Their diverse backgrounds led them to their natural subject, the often amusing conflict of cultures. Their limited budgets forced them to work on canvases that were, by Hollywood standards, miniature. A Room with a View, their best picture so far, is an exquisite, almost delicious comedy of manners about Edwardian...