Word: discerner
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...town-gown relations, the incident at Duke (or, in a sense, the lack of an incident) says a lot about the sensationalizing of sexual assault cases today. So many facets of society have become so hypersensitive to such matters that we seem to be losing our ability to discern between legitimate issues of sexual violence and overblown or exaggerated circumstances. To be sure, crimes of sexual assault such as rape are very serious matters. But so too is an accusation of rape...
...college journalism, indeed all journalism: thorough and unbiased coverage. Newspapers which print in fear of administrative reproach cannot effectively do their job. To subject a newspaper to administration review is to undermine the ability of student reporters to thoroughly and critically provide an invaluable service to their communities: to discern and disseminate the truth. Though it might well be argued that student journalists still in high school lack the maturity or responsibility that they must have in order to run their newspapers without oversight, college students are adults in the eyes of the law and should be treated as such...
When you look at my Facebook profile you’ll see that I’m female, interested in men, and married – don’t worry Mom, we haven’t made it legal yet. You’ll also discern that I’m from Dallas (and judging by my groups, fiercely proud of it), my birthday is May 22, I’m politically “moderate,” and apparently have no religious views...
...analyst of human psychology—or just an embittered feminist.Whichever category Cusk falls into, her newest novel is certainly perceptive. It is a surprisingly philosophical book in which everyday characters in an everyday setting hint at being deeply symbolic—though it’s difficult to discern what they’re supposed to symbolize.“Arlington Park” follows the lives of five young British housewives through the course of one rainy day and culminates, like “Mrs. Dalloway,” in a dinner party. Cusk’s heroines...
...rechristened his Holy Family (1914) as Peasant Family. He painted and drew several masterpieces such as Tractor Workshop of the Putilov Iron Works (1932) and GOELRO (Lenin's Electrification Plan) (1930). But though their titles were unassailably in tune with the times, even an average party commissar could discern in them an inherent and uncomfortable truthfulness. Unable to get commissions, Filonov lived in poverty, occasionally working on contracts that other people procured for him in their names. Foreign collectors would offer up to $25,000 - an astonishing sum in the late 1930s - to buy a piece, but the artist consistently...