Word: latent
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Crowds of men and women,/ Who rise in dorm rooms,/ Who prowl two-footed to the dining hall,/ Who sit in broods over the latent mine of print, slurping, yawning, absorbing...
...what kind of a year he can have,” Walsh says. “For the first time, in all reality, there’s a lot of buzz going on with professional scouts.”The senior, with his big summer and long-latent pro potential, is well aware.Glancing at his right arm, in fact, grinning in his tuxedo, he seems to realize that he has three months left and an itch to engrave an appositive or two.—Staff writer Pablo S. Torre can be reached at torre@fas.harvard.edu...
...water buffalo incident” also concerned freedom of expression, some students said that any connection between these two episodes is a stretch.“There’s no comparison,” Park wrote. “The water buffalo incident surrounded racial prejudice already latent on campus. Sex is sex.”BACKING DOWNAnd this time around, the university backed down.According to Geier, university officials said that they had “made a grievous error” and they were dropping all the charges at a recent meeting.The university does not acknowledge error...
...anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. In my own experience, it has drawn my family closer, as we post pictures on Flickr. It has done more than tap into something latent; it has actually created something that wasn't there with the younger family members. We couldn't do that before because we were all geographically separated...
...whether or not to bother reading “The Metamorphosis” he replies: “Kafka was one of my predecessors.”When his wife Joan (Laura Linney) embarks on a literary career, with greater success than he has enjoyed in decades, the latent tensions in their marriage are exposed and worsen until they precipitate divorce.The emotional fallout from this decision, particularly for the couple’s sons Walt and Frank (played by Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline respectively), is devastating. The film’s tagline—“Joint custody...