Word: misguidedness
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This interpretation apparently was misguided. The Faculty Council's resounding rejection last May of the CUE study abroad plan, which CUE students assumed CUE faculty members supported, is the most glaring example. "They acted like they were taking us seriously," Brown said, adding that throughout the discussions the professors "nodded...
SANDWICHED BETWEEN three paragraphs about a five year old boy who teaches fear-of-flying and sex therapy sessions and an interview with a paper-trained puppy that writes a weekly column for the Miami Herald (In His Own Words), People magazine tells us where Jerzy Kosinski hangs out: dingy...
PERHAPS IT IS this hesitancy to generalize, to offer weighty and solemn judgements, that makes Didion's writing so evocative. Instead of pronouncements, she offers reportage. She focuses on an incident and notes every detail in uncluttered, harsh prose. Didion also has the reporter's curiosity about how things work...
Although the judges disliked Harvard's denial of an energy problem, two judges, William Hogan, professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School, and Norman Rasmussen, a nuclear specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, called Edinburgh's concern with past responsibility "misguided."
PERHAPS IT IS this hesitancy to generalize, to offer weighty and solemn judgments, that makes Didion's writing so evocative. Instead of pronouncements, she offers reportage. She focuses on an incident and notes every detail in uncluttered, harsh prose. Didion also has the reporter's curiosity about how things work...