Word: embarrassement
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...bitter fact that their voices are effectively silenced by an almost total lack of active concern on the University's part. The average student hears from Harvard officials only when he trips up or when he performs so superbly that to ignore his achievements would only serve to embarrass the University. Admittedly, several campus research groups periodically survey the masses in order to prepare "trend" reports on the quality of life. The latest of these questionnaires, now being circulated among upperclassmen, concerns the undergraduate House system, about which, Bok notes in a cover letter, the Harvard administration is "deeply concerned...
...flattered, in a way, by the claim that I could somehow put a club-wielding workman, in the presence of three of his friends, in fear of bodily harm. I won't embarrass myself here with too strenuous a denial. I will note only that when I told John Marquand about the charge, he laughed himself half way across the Yard...
...trouble is, congressional leaders of both parties realize that the Reagan budget would be overwhelmingly defeated. Some Democratic members were hankering for a showdown, but O'Neill urged his party colleagues not to force the issue. "What are we going to do it for," he asked, "except to embarrass the President?" Jones denied that his aim was to embarrass anybody. "I'm just trying to break the logjam," he said, "and this may be the only way." Some Congressmen are prepared to do almost anything to force Reagan to give ground. They are beginning to realize that unless...
...measure's sponsors are now pushing for formal hearings, and while chances for passage in the House look good, the outcome in the Senate is uncertain. Though the resolution is purely symbolic, its passage would surely embarrass, if not hamper, the Administration in any arms-control negotiations. Meanwhile, as Administration hawks scramble to defuse the measure, a grassroots campaign against doomsday weapons picked up more support last week. Maine's legislature became the eighth to request a moratorium on the spread of nuclear arms...
...that matter for good singing or dancing. With the exception of Ken Hodder as the professor whose underwear must be too tight and Greg Martin, as the future real estate tycoon, this cast would get cut from most House productions. Several of the solo vocal numbers simply embarrass the audience as well as the performers. Actors (23 of em shuffle, awkwardly in huge packs on and off the stage toting Peanuts-style two-dimensional trees for the nature scenes and a dissipated desk and chair, which indicate action indoors. Dialogue drones endlessly, and the only truly witty exchange...