Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard freshmen are coming out of highly oriented, competitive settings, "Epps said, attempting to explain the relatively low level of binge drinking among entering students...
...first, I was stumped. How could I explain the intense anger and frustration I felt the moment that word slipped from that child's mouth? It isn't just like any other insult. It is not something that can be ignored or brushed off, no matter how much of a "better" person you are than the person using it. But as I thought about it, I realized that it isn't the word itself that inflamed me, it was the history behind it and the social context within which it was used...
...Block employee reports that a client entered the business and asked about his refund. When an employee tried to explain, the client became irrational and said, "I know how to get my money fast." At that time, the individual looked towards the cash register. The employee took this as a threat...
...where the "Eight Days a Week" article appeared, The Crimson ran an article on "slackers" at Harvard (News, Oct.24). Despite a remarkably similar subject--surveying unusual students and asking them about the choices they've made--the article on slackers is prefaced by a series of remarks attempting to explain the slackers' behavior, including analyses from Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Of course, no such explanations precede the descriptions of students who "do it all." In the article on students who don't do anything, the word "slacker" could have...
...spend a lot of time sitting around, looking at the ceiling." The ceiling of my bedroom is covered with glow-in-the-dark stars. Two weeks ago, I spent the majority of an entire evening looking at the ceiling. I'm not going to try to explain to you why this was useful, or productive, or beneficial or enriching. To be quite honest, it was completely pointless. The next day, someone asked what I had done that night. I answered, "Nothing." I have no regrets...