Word: floridation
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...Ellis lie? For the most part, his stories weren't heroic but put him--and through him, his students--on the scene. It was sometimes a florid stage, as when Ellis told of seeing a burly comrade reading Emily Dickinson and weeping on the battlefield. "There is a classroom persona you have as a teacher that's not quite you," says Mount Holyoke's dean of faculty, Donal O'Shea. "There's an element of great teaching that's theater. And Professor Ellis was expert at that." Fellow baby boomers speculate that Ellis gave in to a generational tendency...
...begins with the selection process. Medical school admissions committees look for winners: the highest GPAs, the highest scores on the Medical College Admissions Test, the most glowing reports about undergraduate achievements. They like to see stratospheric numbers and florid adjectives. In view of this emphasis, it is a wonder that they manage to admit as many idealistic young people to the profession as they do. But there are not enough, and every one of these students wants to be a man or woman who knows how to triumph over great odds. When the time comes to lose, as it inevitably...