Word: imparters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grueling those "Baywatch" shoots are, so hundreds of Harvard's male under-graduates can ogle and drool? This is supposed to be Harvard University, the finest school in this hemisphere, if not the world. It has been host to many speakers of first-rate intellect who came to impart their knowledge and wisdom to the students. Mel Gibson doesn't belong here; he belongs in People magazine. Shame on the Graduate School of Education for bringing him here and wasting Harvard's precious resources. And shame on the students who went to see him and are embarrassed to admit that...
...which uses an elaborate computer-software program to analyze word patterns in political discourse. In the first debate, according to project co-director Roderick Hart of the University of Texas at Austin, Dole "significantly eclipsed" Clinton in the use of such active terms as challenge, overcome and motivate, which impart a sense of vigorousness to voters. Dole, in his own words, was "reaching out," "protecting" and "defending," all of which, says Hart, painted a word picture of a "vigorous 73-year...
...greatness of the University lies in its ability to impart unto us an understanding, not of the use of theory for praxis, but of the service of praxis to the questioning spirit that is inseparable from the spiritual development of ourselves and of our society...
After all, consciousness--the existence of pleasure and pain, love and grief--is a fairly central source of life's meaning. For it to have been thrown into the fabric of the universe as a freebie would suggest to some people that the thrower wanted to impart significance...
...draw on one of Carter's illustrative cases, could, on the face of it, exhibit "integrity" by zipping through the three-step program before turning on the gas. In which case "integrity" wouldn't be much more than an accessory, like a walking stick or a pipe, designed to impart some of that ineffable quality we all seem to crave--gravitas...