Word: obvious
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...Cortázar’s demands on the reader’s engagement are perhaps most obvious, however, in the novel’s structure. “Hopscotch” can be read either linearly, from Chapter 1 through Chapter 155, or it can be tackled in the order suggested by the fanciful “Table of Instructions” provided at the beginning of the book, which sends the reader “hopscotching” from one chapter to another based on the loosest of associations. Such “make your own adventure?...
...rock stars.“People expect us to calculate the rate at which a rock rolls—not give them straight-up rock ‘n’ roll,” Furst says.The path from Harvard student to rock musician is not obvious. As Socrates R. Cruz ’06 of the band Moniker said, “It’s not like there is a music business concentration.” Indeed, many of the musicians have struggled to break into a world where a Harvard diploma is more of a curiosity than...
...activity) can now check that they are actually using them correctly. The recession's effect on our behavior has impacted language too. Holidaymakers trying to rein in spending have popularized the term staycation (taking a holiday without going abroad). Glamping (glamorous camping) is less popular at the moment, for obvious reasons...
...committee should look beyond categories so narrowly defined and provide all students with the opportunity to stay on campus and be productive. An obvious start would be to allow all thesis writers—with or without a compelling research need—to stay on campus in order to write and research without the distractions that forcing them to be at home may entail. The College should generally take a more accommodating stance in their review of submitted applications and provide students with more options. We agree that it is important that students have a reason to stay...
...while others come back in frustration. After a recent humanitarian research project, I have come to appreciate the value of the frustrating experiences. These experiences provide subtle, et important clues as to why many developing communities stagnate in poverty. I believe it is the failure to understand these less obvious driving forces of poverty that cause even giant organizations like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to fail in major development projects. But most importantly, these experiences teach us the value of perseverance in development work while ignoring bureaucratic fluff...