Word: hallmark
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Much to my surprise and joy, these Radcliffe-inspired investigations have enabled me to glimpse new facets of myself. These are the discoveries which Rundenstine, Gish and Pirsig have identified as the hallmark of an education. I now feel that I, too, have contributed to the Radcliffe tradition. Through meetings in the Lyman Common Room, games of tag in the Yard and celebrations under the Radcliffe tent, I have identified and found acceptance for my individuality. I am always myself at Radcliffe...
...hard to complain about a bipartisan consensus in favor of goodness. Certainly its premises are too grave to dismiss. Rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock birth are indeed appalling, as are the related rates of child abuse and neglect. Songs celebrating rape and murder are not the hallmark of a healthy culture. Still, it's fair to ask whether something as ideologically jumbled as the new politics of virtue can ultimately prove coherent. Can liberals and conservatives so easily embrace the same ideas without surrendering bedrock beliefs? Or, in fact, might a real moral recovery entail some bitter medicine...
...successfully married person should realize that he or she is fundamentally lucky--lucky that his or her parents instilled a sense of commitment, or lucky to have been blessed with a temperament conducive to marriage, or lucky to have found a well-matched mate. Such humble detachment is a hallmark of liberalism; a good liberal can look at anyone--serial killer or serial monogamist--and see how circumstances of birth and upbringing loaded the dice. A guiding insight of modern liberalism is "There but for the grace...
...fact, Rudenstine dedicated his Commencement address this year to his vision for the impact the Internet will have on teaching, comparing its development to the creation of the large research libraries that have been the hallmark of University scholarship for the last century...
Rudenstine's hallmark of intense personal involvement eventually took its toll. On November 28, 1994, the University announced Rudenstine was suffering from severe fatigue and would be on medical leave for at least several weeks...