Word: hushing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After teasing the group long enough, De Friez raised her glass and toasted Wilson. A hush fell over the room and the portrait's artist, Ronald Frontin, let the velvet slip from the painting...
...would prefer not to say where we're headed," he said. Levitan confirmed that he has been in contact with the group at least once a week. He enigmatically stated, "If an event occurred which brought ownership into jeopardy, Harvard would have to intercede." But both sides were similarly hush hush on any details. Until the hour of the agreement Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 emphatically declined all comment on the matter...
ORDINARY.COM Why do some men shave while others grow a beard? Why the sudden hush in an elevator? A new online periodical called the Journal of Mundane Behavior mundanebehavior.org analyzes these and other quotidian activities. Why bother to log on? Because the ordinary reveals more about ourselves, says managing editor Scott Schaffer, a sociologist at California State University at Fullerton: "Most of us don't lead Jerry Springer lives." True, but his show should still get the ratings...
Although having sex in the stacks of Widener has become legendary amongst students, for those who don't get any, scouring the stacks in search of porn is the chosen alternative. Rumor has it that many get their kicks in "The X-Cage," a hush-hush collection of pornographic picturebooks tucked away in Widener's farthest reaches...
...This is the kind of thing that Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer for the New Yorker, thinks about in The Tipping Point (Little, Brown; 279 pages; $24.95), a somersaulting exercise in social theory that tries to explain how ideas and trends are spread. Like germs, is Gladwell's answer. Hush Puppies and Big Bird, hypodermics and Republicanism--every notion and product can catch on in ways that resemble medical contagions. The most explosive are set off when very effective carriers spread very potent strains in very conducive settings. And in these social outbursts, Gladwell tells us, small things have...