Word: discerner
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Years ago, the Princeton psychologist Hadley Cantril posited that social panics occur when large groups can't discern reliable sources of advice from unreliable ones. The jumbled frenzy of 24/7 information access may be making our current panic worse. It's tempting to check your investments every few minutes. But having more information, in this case, isn't necessarily better. Panic attacks end when you take a deep breath, and a step back...
...Morello’s second album as his highly politicized alter-ego. However, Morello, who was a Gov concentrator during his time at Harvard, apparently didn’t take any electives in poetry. His heart may be in the right place, but that’s hard to discern as this tepid album plays...
...that is, in many ways, little more than stage management. What will be far harder to discern will be what Obama himself is getting out of his trip. As Haass notes, "The real question is what he learns and ultimately incorporates into his thinking...
...glassy synthesizers, and he anchors most of the tracks in beds of tonal allusion to the transatlantic dance pop of the mid-80s. In fact, most of the album’s tracks reek so heavily of excess that, after a first listen, it’s difficult to discern whether “Youth” proposes homage or parody. Gonzales clearly understands the nostalgia associated with such eagerly retrospective arrangements, but in trying to plug listeners into that same nostalgia, he also recalls the vapidity and gross superficiality that followed in its wake. As a portrait...
...more than a few - complain that Britain's Prime Minister lacks vision. They say he's a details man - not a bad attribute in a Finance Minister, the role he occupied for just over a decade, but a weakness in a national leader whose job it is to discern and articulate the bigger picture. Yet from the Scottish home Brown has owned for more than 20 years, a solid family house with large bay windows and a sloping front garden, there's nothing but big views: great, windswept skies and a broad expanse of water spanned by two extraordinary bridges...