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Connor said he thought these potential problems had been ably handled by the course’s head teaching fellow, Gustavo S. Turner, calling him “part of the glue that held [the course] together...
...rebuttal to your statement about undeserved post-summer doldrums acclaim, I present to you Entertainment Weekly’s largely respectable critic Lisa Schwarzbaum and her take on last year’s rigid, bland-as-glue Seabiscuit: “A rare pedigreed entrant in a summer of mules.” It seems many critics (79 percent of them, according to rottentomatoes.com) are not as capable as you think of keeping their cool after a summer of roasted, bloated turkeys...
...came from a culture and a tradition that taught people what was right and what was wrong," he says. "When they tried to transfer it to this country, that tradition got diluted by the marketplace mentality of American society. The friendships, the family ties, the trust, loyalty, obedience--the glue that held us together--that's not there anymore. What's out there today is nothing but a parody of what it used to be. I don't even recognize...
...Family is part of the glue of the building blocks of society,” he said...
...reason is that there is usually less social glue--marriage, family expectations, children--holding gay couples together. "There's really no one rooting for them to stick it out through the tough times the way there is for straight couples," says Green. "There's no ceremony that invokes traditions of what it means to be a couple. It produces tremendous insecurity...