Word: offhands
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Many male supervisors are now wondering how careful they will have to be with their humor, their offhand remarks, their courtship of colleagues in whom they are romantically interested. Florida state representative Kathy Chinoy is a lawyer whose specialty is sexual harassment. She finds that many of her colleagues in the statehouse are genuinely bewildered by the issue, though younger men, who grew up with a different code of conduct, seem to have a more acute understanding. She recommends a simple litmus test for men who are seeking guidance on what is appropriate and what is not: "Would you want...
Though he has mastered the offhand approach, Mayle, 52, has a sophisticated sense of how to make words count and how to charm a reader. He credits his skills to his early career in advertising. He had chosen the field mostly because of his favorite English teacher, who, in addition to pointing out the elements of style, noted that writers "can live where they like, work on their own schedule, choose their subject and blame no one but themselves for failure." Mayle had finished college in Barbados, where his father was living. There he discovered another lifelong love...
...system is far superior to that of other colleges. He readily admits that standardized advising may range in quality, but adds that a lot of advice at Harvard can be found "in the air," whether that means a chance sentence a student reads in The Yard Bulletin or an offhand remark made by a proctor...
...lasting reaction, besides outrage of one kind or another, may have been a sense of being in the presence of a mystery. "Nothing human is alien to me," Terence said, but this gross, offhand brutality, dealt out by guardians of the law, seemed alien enough and disturbing on a fairly deep emotional and moral level...
...eight years, bass player Larry Klein -- have some jazz background. They know, as Mitchell puts it, "how to see around corners." They can lend her delicate rhythms a strong foundation without blowing them away. Mitchell's own prominent acoustic guitar gives the whole album a kind of casual, offhand luster. "Initially, I was taken for a folk singer," Mitchell reflects. "Then folk singing was out of vogue and folk rock was in. Then for a while I was considered to be a country musician. My music ((now)) is not jazz. I'm a bit of an explorer...