Word: particularity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Well, I love animals. I have to have them in my life, dogs in particular. I just find them endlessly interesting and funny and moving. In the Al Jolson story, the first story I wrote, I had followed ape language experiments for many years—I just was interested in them. And I got to meet Coco in California many years ago, the gorilla who was taught sign language and that was a truly life-changing experience, sitting down with this gorilla who could communicate with me. Yeah, it was extraordinary. So, I’d heard about this...
Panelist and Government Professor James E. Alt, who also serves on his own department’s search committees, emphasized to students that search committees would be especially particular about their choices this year, because they “haven’t gained the confidence that next year will happen...
...what is to come—the upcoming flu season. With sanitization stations dotting the campus, e-mails from deans reminding us to wash our hands with soap and water and sanitizer, and special rooms on campus quarantining sick students, we would be hard-pressed not to notice the particular attention paid to this year’s flu season, especially with the spread of the H1N1...
...Italy in particular? "It can be extreme," she says of a child's attachment to casa and mamma. This extra-close relationship between Italian mothers and their children is thought to have its origins in the economic and political history of the country. For centuries, the Italian peninsula was a poverty-stricken place with weak governments, meaning that the family was the only source of protection and economic support for people. More recently, psychologists and economists believe the mammone problem is rooted in the economic precariousness of a debt-ridden nation that has been in gradual decline since its post...
...folkloric image of the doting Italian mother has been joined in the national consciousness by something a tad less idyllic: the mammone, or mama's boy, the hyper-coddled son (daughters are statistically less susceptible) who grows up so attached to his home, and to his mamma in particular, that he never really becomes independent or a self-sufficient...