Word: musing
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...addition to campaigning vigorously for first choice support, candidates muse seek voters who would list them as their second choice...
...Kerouac and Chuck Berry. The Irish tenor John McCormack said what distinguishes an important voice from a good one is the indescribable but crucial quality that he termed "the yarrrrragh." The yarrrrragh, critic Greil Marcus points out, is "a mythic incantation . . . To Morrison ((it is)) the gift of the muse and the muse itself...
...hear Morrison courting this muse in the Pentecostal growls and incantations of Listen to the Lion on his 1972 album Saint Dominic's Preview, or personifying it on his new album in Village Idiot, whose protagonist "wears his overcoat in the summer/ And short sleeves in the winter time" but who is nourished by some secret spiritual serenity: "Don't you know he's onto something . . . / Sometimes he looks so happy/ As he goes strolling...
...Prosecutors have found that women tend to be harsh judges of one another -- perhaps because to find a defendant guilty is to entertain two grim realities: that anyone might be a rapist, and that every woman could find herself a victim. It may be easier to believe, the experts muse, that at some level the victim asked for it. "But just because a woman makes a bad judgment, does that give the guy a moral right to rape her?" asks Dean Kilpatrick, director of the Crime Victim Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina. "The bottom...
Josephson began teaching ethics in 1976, when he was assigned a Watergate- inspired course on legal ethics. Later that year, he began to muse over the increasing distance between society's emphasis on measures designed to prevent bad conduct and its incentives to promote good behavior. In Los Angeles he founded the nonprofit Joseph & Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics, named for his parents, and started offering classes. During the past four years, he has taught thousands of people in hundreds of companies and organizations. One of his main precepts: "We judge ourselves by our best intention, but we are judged...