Word: finding
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Edward Sebelius said he hopes his peers will find his mother’s speech worthwhile...
...immediately discernable. He knew, of course, that there must be some pattern. Everything in nature, no matter how obscure, no matter how frequently, participated in the world’s rhythm. He believed deeply in such things. But just now he was feeling very small. For being unable to find the rhythm in something so vast. But he was comforted as he lay there, discovering that the order of things was/is/will be his smallness, lying in an empty parking lot, contemplating the vastness of the cosmos. He was lying on his back in the lot, in spot number twenty-eight...
...uphill battle once his research was done. Professor Kincaid gave Iweala the key to her office so that he could write whenever he wished. Iweala remembers spending many nights on the floor of the office, writing and rewriting. One of the most difficult things about the story was finding its voice. “He’s very interested in the voices we speak with and the voices we have in our own head,” says Ian R. MacKenzie ’04, Iweala’s friend and fellow thesis-writer. “Beasts...
December 2005, when he asked me to read his novel. I was kind of reluctant to do it. I was concerned that I'd find things in there that would make me uncomfortable. As it turned out, the novel was actually surprisingly tender. I know that sounds strange. For the most part, it was a juvenile relationship that he was exploring, a boy and a girl going to a playground and swinging on the swings. At one point it seems as though they're going to be happy forever - it's the best section in the novel. And then everything...
...used to being vilified and having our initiatives mischaracterized or maligned that I have recently found myself failing to listen seriously to my opponents ... That has never happened before to me, and I find it unacceptable in myself." - during a first-ever "state of the district" address delivered while superintendent. Near the end of his tenure, Bersin's opponents in the teachers union and school board were attacking him as often as possible. (San Diego Union-Tribune, April...