Word: obvious
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...obvious that disciplinary reform that depends so heavily on unset precedent might not reform much of anything. Whether justice would be served more fully under the new body than it is now cannot be known until the body has heard some cases and thereby written the laws under which students will live. In the meantime, of course, the discipline the new group metes out might appear completely arbitrary to the students before...
Salle's is formula art of the most obvious kind. Its peculiar smugness comes from the belief that appropriation is the best, even the only way for art to keep its power in a media-soaked environment. "By embracing the intensity of empty value at the core of mass-media representation," claims Lisa Phillips in her catalog essay, "only then can the perennial challenge be met of finding and constructing significant meaning in the midst of declining values for images and words." This is modish nonsense. What becomes more obvious with each passing year of postmodernism is that...
...think it was obvious we were coming off the intercession," said Papailias, who is now 21-3 on the year. "We were just...
...fundamental structural problems suggested by the analogy of the protectors insuring that the organic society that is Harvard remains a constant. The University resists adaptation of basic features of the modern world. Harvard functions corporately instead of democratically. It is structured paternalistically instead of communally. These characteristics seem so obvious, yet so widely ignored. The majority of students and alumni simply relinquish any claim to republican rights when they enter Harvard's gates or receive the University's seal of approval...
Nowhere is the malaise of American service more obvious than in the airline business. Cabin attendants often stand by unconcerned, aloof and bored, while old folks and children struggle with their bags. Untended airplane toilets reek. Every flight seems to be late and/or overcrowded...