Word: fingering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LeBow handled the puzzled questions--" I thought a nail was the type of a finger?"--like a pro (which her impressive teaching resume confirms). LeBow has taught cello lessons through PBHA's HARMONY (Harvard and Radcliffe Musical Outreach to Neighborhood Youth) and Latin with the Summerbridge Program. This summer, she will teach English literature to disadvantaged sixth and seventh graders in Cambridge...
...awestruck, watching LeBow easily explain the meaning of the phrase "I should" and explicating the difference between finger nails and iron nails, I was struck with one fundamental question that yet remains unanswered...
...computer like Sejnowski's could have made the diagnosis in real time. Further down the road could be a host of other emotion-measuring computer systems, ranging from smart ATMs that can shut down if they spot a suspicious patron to television systems that can determine if a finger-wagging politician is telling the truth. Privacy advocates will no doubt have much to say about all this, none of it good, but the technology may nonetheless be on the way. "You can be sure it's coming," Sejnowski says flatly. Whether humanity is ready for it is another question entirely...
...plan file is so steeped in irony, so full of wink-wink suggestion, that its purpose can be easily obscured. In one sense, a plan file is like a calling card, announcing your position and social status to whoever wants to call on you. Since anyone can finger your account, a plan file is theoretically written for everyone to read. But at the same time, the text establishes an intimate bond between author and reader. To finger someone's account means expressing interest in that person, however benign, and the plan file must by its very nature take that attraction...
...majority of plan files, however, are written to be read by anyone who is interested enough to finger you in the first place. These kinds of plan files are intended to make their authors look aloof, mysterious and witty. They must tantalize the reader's curiosity but not give too much away. We find the ancient Greeks so fascinating because we only possess fragments of their work. A plan file is like a fragment of a personality, a shard from a giant amphora. It tempts us to put all the pieces together and reconstruct the person from the parts...