Word: discernment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle-aged member (preferably male) of corporate America yearning for a comprehensive guidebook to the conceptual foundations of the Internet and its seemingly interminable resources? Do you want to read about the lurid past of the Net and discern the direction of its evolution? If so, then Esther Dyson '72 has written a new Bible for you, alluringly entitled Release 2.0, A Design for Living in the Digital...
...interaction between the orchestra and the quartet, however, too often failed to achieve the kind of dialogue expected of a concerto. Certainly this expectation can be abandoned. Yet even without it, the piece was often too homogeneous, the sense of forward motion and development too difficult to discern...
Clinton can't use poor hearing to explain his failure to discern the roar of Whitewater, but it has possibilities for his current troubles. Experts agree that hearing loss is most pronounced at social events. All those coffees? He never heard a word that John Huang said. Was Roger Tamraz talking about a pipeline--or Nightline? Those pleas from Harold Ickes to make fund-raising calls? He turned a deaf...
...next to impossible to discern whether or not a school had a liberal, activist community and a vibrant queer social scene, Sulmers said...
...that Vonnegut's voice has ever been very difficult to discern in any of his books. His own unapologetically leftwing, anti-technology standpoint is abundantly clear in each one of his savagely ironic novels. In Timequake, though, he gives it full throttle, often ranting about modern America for chapters on end without returning to the world of Kilgore Trout, his fictitious "other self...