Word: farawayness
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Caregivers complain that their siblings don't help, don't appreciate their efforts and make matters worse by criticizing their efforts in the trenches. The faraway or less involved siblings claim that the caregiver plays the role of the martyr, taking on the burden of caregiving and spurning offers of help...
...priorities in college had been “1) mountain climbing, 2) girls, 3) track, 4) music and 5) my other studies,” Nabokov writes. His entryway, M, also housed the Harvard Mountaineering Club’s office, where Nabokov would spend hours poring over books about faraway peaks and sipping vermouth...
...take their students on field trips around the world to enhance their studies. This is an excellent idea, but this proposal does not have to wait until the implementation of the January term; the proposed changes should begin to happen now. Some Harvard departments already take their students on faraway field trips during breaks. For example, the Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) department is offering an all-expense paid trip to the big island of Hawaii before school starts in September 2005, and all sophomore EPS concentrators are welcome to participate. Though not technically an international trip, this kind...
With the most recent theme, “Unusual Faces from Faraway Places,” a local artist painted portraits of the children, who later explored different representations of faces in the museum’s collections and painted portraits of themselves and their families...
Some couples who welcome kids year after year even become local representatives for their program. Becky and David Massey, 56 and 58, a food-service director and a factory worker in Oregon, Ohio, are typical. Through the Aspect Foundation, they welcomed kids from Germany, Ecuador and Palestine, among other faraway places. As volunteer representatives, the Masseys enlist host families and mediate any problems that arise during the school year...