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...most disconcerting answer is, "No, not really.") It is today's ritualistic form of obeisance. It means, "You must be very important." We've come a long way in the century since Thorstein Veblen wrote about "conspicuous" or even "honorific leisure" as a way of displaying social status. "Gosh, you must have nothing at all to do all day," would not be considered a compliment...
...Alamein, a stallion out of Mexico with a good ear, as Reagan explains. "Not too long ago, he did something that made me kind of call him to order, and I said, 'Hey, Mexicano.' He stopped and turned and looked right at me, and I thought, 'My gosh, he was raised and ridden and directed with the Mexican language.' So I've got to learn a little more Spanish...
...specific plan for what we want to do with that site has been a problem," says Director of Planning Kathy A. Spiegelman, who argued against the new zoning for Harvard in the council. "I personally had to get up in City Council a couple weeks ago and say, 'Gosh, I don't really know what we want to do, but we want to preserve our flexibility...
Some students hissed. Then he acknowledged his faux pas, with a gosh that was bad, wasn...
Bernard Cowles, a member of Phi Delta Theta which is adjacent to the new Black fraternity house, agreed. "There is lots of racism. Usually nothing you can see visibly, but you can feel it--my gosh, was it expressed last month...