Word: obvious
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...jingoism sometimes displayed by recently-minted American citizens eager to assert the superiority of their new citizenship over all others. In such a fashion, expectations inflate faster than Weimar currency; students’ assumptions will be heading into next September outrageous and out-of-touch. The fallout is obvious: a body of students for whom the most delicate disappointment of perfection constitutes universal depression. How is it that students in the company of such affluence and opportunity can sometimes be so unhappy? Perhaps much of it stems from the hyper-reality produced by Harvard students who do not yet know...
...praise when praise is due. No one has as little tolerance for cliché or as much appetite for intellectual sparring. Many a bad idea has died at her feet, while countless great ones were born out of her ability to make writers refine their thoughts and search beyond the obvious to explain something deeper and more significant for the reader. In her new life, she plans to see as much theater as she can, spend time with her husband Kamau and devote more attention to the blog she began a year ago, Broadway & Me broadwayandme.blogspot.com) The one consolation...
...course, no such bloom would occur if the American soil were not already faith-saturated. But Ratzinger believes in America's "obvious spiritual foundation," its natural, Puritan-instilled DNA. He is well aware that this is eroding; he thinks we watch too much TV and fears that American secularization is proceeding at an "accelerated pace." But he insists that there is a "much clearer and implicit sense" in the U.S. than in Europe of a morality "bequeathed by Christianity." He has also given earnest thought to the mechanics of this civil religion, specifying that to affect the moral consensus...
...that they deserve the total condemnation of what is for most sports fans the most reliable purveyor of stats and scores. As editor of an “underground” blog that boasts “sports news without access, favor, or discretion,” Leitch has obvious reasons for disliking larger media conglomerates. But by assaulting ESPN he risks falling into the trap of the very “preening sportscasters” he criticizes: when sports are your life, you take them too seriously.Ultimately, in trying to celebrate what got us sports fans hooked...
...more determined to improve the little things such as taking care of the ball. “Overall I think losing that way just makes you want to go back to practice and work on things,” Bobzin said. “It is coming increasingly more obvious the thing we need to work on.” Even though it was down, Harvard never gave up and never lost focus. Even in the last minutes of play Harvard was aggressive and scored a goal. “I think we gave a good fight and played strong...