Word: formality
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Fans of the HBO show—where the Borat segments made their debut—will note a fair number of rehashed themes from the television sketches. Borat again learns formal etiquette and dines with a group of elite Southerners, and again spices up the dinner conversation with explicit talk of bowel movements...
Rozier: I’ve never had any classes or formal training. For me it was a matter of getting a digital camera for my birthday and going nuts. I was really camera-happy. My friends would make fun of me for being the paparazzi. Before I’d really only taken pictures for the sake of documenting things or for my family...
Smith, who doesn’t have any formal training either, says that he got interested in photography through his friends, while Pan was introduced to it by his cousin...
...mostly for fun—I mean, I still do it for fun. My girlfriend is also really interested in photography and she has shown me a lot. I’ve been taking photos for four years, but I’ve never taken any formal classes...
...these improvements will have little effect if students do not evaluate their courses. But students cannot give formal feedback if professors do not universally allow CUE evaluations. The College suffers from a culture where teaching ability plays essentially no role in hiring, where faculty, out of professional “courtesy” to their colleagues, are hesitant to evaluate each others’ courses, and where some instructors even refuse to hear students’ feedback on their own courses. If Harvard College wishes to remain the preeminent undergraduate institution, it must improve its undergraduate instruction. The first shortcoming?...