Word: particularity
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...having to live them, make them interesting for ourselves. So instead of sharing our problems over cosmopolitans—like Carrie and the girls—we share ours over molten chocolate cake at Finale. (Unless our particular problem is how to lose ten pounds before the first 70 degree day.) Instead of conversations at “the coffee shop,” ours happen in “the dining hall...
...Authorizing a particular position in a particular department is going to be understood better by a divisional dean than by this office,” Smith said...
...educational value of allowing Internet use during class but he also did not support the University of Chicago’s prohibition. “One of the arguments is that our students are adults and if they want to allow themselves to become addicted to a particular form of distraction...then that’s their right,” Parker said. Some professors in the College have tried to combat Internet distraction. History professor Henrietta Harrison prohibited laptops her first year of teaching. “I’m not sure whether the answer is to make...
...still a socialist at 40 has no head.” So (apocryphally?) spoke the “Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck, a man with witticisms and grandfatherly maxims in no short supply. Harvard’s class of 1967 appropriated the first half of this particular idiom last December when warning of the “careerist, vocational orientation” to which many colleges today subscribe, and lamenting the “widespread apathy and political indifference” on display in post-millennial Harvard undergraduates.This letter, now nearly forgotten, always seemed to be born...
Sheehan also said that, as a woman, there was particular value...