Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Money he has recovered the gently acerbic touch that he displayed as a reformist capitalist, and that made popular such books as The Affluent Society and the New Industrial State. Sample putdown: "Those who talk of money and teach about it and make their living by it gain prestige, esteem and pecuniary return, as does a doctor or a witch doctor, from cultivating the belief that they are in privileged association with the occult ... Though professionally rewarding and personally, profitable, this too is a well-established form of fraud...
...reflects a positivistic attitude. It's a mirror to our present world with some adventure thrown in." Another academician who gives the show high marks is Astronomy Professor Leo Standeford, who has conducted a one-credit course in Star Trek at Minnesota's Mankato State University. His esteem is shared by the Smithsonian Institution, which has acquired a model of the Enterprise. Paramount is now planning to make a Star Trek movie. Glubegk enkov (Live long and prosper), as Vulcanites would say. Spock...
...next four years of your life than any other administrator. Master of the Faculty and keeper of its budget in a school where teachers call most of the shots, Rosovsky must be brilliant and a politician at the same time. He fulfills both roles well and has the esteem of even the most jealous colleagues. This year will definitely be Rosovsky's most publicized, with Doris Kearns coming up for tenure and his all-important educational task forces due to start reporting their findings...
...pretty loose about grades but they are valuable for your own self-esteem. If someone gives you a B, he's saying you're just not as smart as the next guy who gets an A. It hurts. It's not particular to Harvard. It's the way the grade system works...
Largely unknown, he has enjoyed the esteem of his peers. Lawrence Durrell praised him as a major force; Auden ascribed Cavafy's power to surmount translation to "a tone of voice," the revelation of "a person with a unique perspective on the world." That perspective is keenly evoked in a new translation by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. And as a bonus, the first English biography of Cavafy has just been published. In it Robert Liddell scrupulously assembles and sifts the frugal details of the poet's life...