Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Trust no one, they add, and cut as many corners as possible before Commencement Day. At no time is unnecessary contact with teacher advisable: "They do not count as people; they are part of THEM." Advisers would never really help you select courses, "never, ever, ever." And if you insist on going to lecture and are bespectacled, you're in business: "People who wear glasses have a definite advantage because they can tilt their heads and let the light flash off the glasses. No one can see that their eyes are closed...
...part of a longer process. None of the past five Presidents have completed two full terms. That is disquieting. Assassinations and forced retirements inject an odd sense of foreboding into presidential politics. There is the ghost of a thought that Americans are growing so impatient and unleadable that they insist on ritually disposing of the President every four years or less. The pat tern need not be inevitable, but in moments of depression, Americans may imagine that the procession of somehow foreshortened presidential terms makes the U.S. like the late Roman Empire: an ungovernable mess with a short attention span...
Donaldson simply goes straight for the jugular. The effect can be unfair, informative and intimidating. The exchange must be fast. Any guest who wants time to reflect risks not being asked back. If he filibusters, he will be interrupted (it takes equal brass, as with Senator Edward Kennedy, to insist, "Excuse me, if I can finish...
...have such a uniform system for determining junior faculty salaries, says Associate Dean Phyllis Keller. But no such scale exists for tenured Faculty members, all of whose salaries Rosovsky determines on an individual basis. Administrators are stingy about the statistics they will reveal about full professors' salaries, but they insist that those figures are also mostly a function of age and experience, Nozick's case apparently notwithstanding...
...Harvard students--virtually at random what they think about Farkas, and you'll come up with at least two different answers. "He's the most glad-handed son of a bitch I've ever met," the first will say, while the other, who understands those sentiments, will insist. "He is one of the best people I've ever met when it comes to being warm, sincere, and caring...