Word: linger
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most frustrating thing you can do to yourself is to linger between “work mode” and “relaxation mode.” So set aside some productive time (but limit it!) and enjoy your break...
...long can an upmarket myth linger before tatty reality rubs it out? The legend of old Broadway-when stories of poor boys winning the hearts of rich girls served as metaphors for the irresistibility of American ambition, and debonair stars introduced songs that instantly found a spot in the everyone's internal juke box-is a good half-century out of date. No #1 Billboard hit has come from a Broadway musical since Judy Collins' "Send in the Clowns" from the Steven Sondheim A Little Night Music in 1973. No Broadway musical has put a bunch of its tunes...
...just important that student organizations moved so quickly to counteract the claims made by O’Reilly’s shows,” he said. “It shows how much people here care about Brown, but we don’t want to linger on this issue. There are many other, more important things that the UCS needs to work...
...town of Hamden, Conn. has little, if any, of the hustle and bustle of 5th Avenue. A far cry from the East Side, Hamden is a quiet suburb, easing the transition from urban New Haven to rural Chesire. Most of Hamden was originally a farm whose vestiges still linger on as stone walls in backyards and undeveloped fields. At its outskirts, Hamden is a liquor store and a gas station with barely paved roads and population densities approaching zero. Near New Haven, Hamden is schools, large colonials, and parks interspersed with restaurants and bars. But most of Hamden lies between...
...grades? Too often we leave more confused and more turned off to the material than when we arrived. Too often there is too much talking, too little listening, and virtually no constructive dialogue going. Such criticisms are hardly new, but, surprisingly, the two myths perpetuating these weekly disasters still linger: Myth #1: Smart people automatically know how to teach. Most of us have already learned the fallacy of this one the hard way, but the University administration still seems to rely upon it. Many cite the high CUE scores most TFs receive as evidence of their competence, but these people...