Word: manner
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...groups cites all manner of unverifiable claims, from “married couples have better sex,” to “kissing and cuddling are underrated,” and abstinence “reduce[s] your chances of depression, divorce, and STD-induced infertility,” as further reasons to convince students to wait until marriage. I suppose we are to infer from this garbage that regretted pre-marital sex is the cause, rather than a symptom of, low self-esteem, failing relationships, and poor intimacy. It’s certainly true that some students feel...
Beyond this one incident, I have seen other instances in which The True Love Revolution is derided in a silly and pointless manner. On several yard kiosks their posters were shredded, or intentionally covered up by the “Stewie Griffin’s Sexy Party” posters advertising Winthrop’s “Debauchery...
...conversations that were gratuitously hostile. What ever happened to crumpling up flyers and throwing them into the trash (or recycling bin, for the environmentally-conscious)? Did “The 40 Year-Old Virgin” scare our campus so badly that we must now resort to this infantile manner of derision toward abstinent peers...
...Child Left Behind proposed radical changes to the structure of school systems. One of the report’s biggest criticisms is that these changes were mandated in a top-down manner from federal to state governments...
Clearly, it takes little more than a differing manner of elocution to be marginalized as an outsider in Boston. It is no surprise then that the comparatively raffish culture at Harvard—epitomized by its rejection of the Boston accent—would serve to alienate the University from the community in which it has resided in since 1636. Why else would Police Captain and son of South Boston William B. Evans be able to develop a convivial rapport with Boston College officials, who extend him a warm invitation yearly to lecture students on the hazards of alcohol, while...