Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want, because they rarely come easily. Harvard makes you fight for every privilege it gives. The Handbook for Students does not list the facilities that will make students happier and healthier, but the rules we had better not break if we want to continue attending. This includes the phrase that every Harvard student fears, but none understands; one must avoid "conduct unbecoming of a Harvard student...
This vague phrase was the charge brought against a group of students who were staging a peaceful demonstration against a controversial speaker here a couple of years ago. To me it demonstrates Harvard's almost complete mistrust of its student body, and, I fear, of its alumni...
...Equal Justice Under Law," reads the motto atop the U.S. Supreme Court building. The words are lofty, but for the thousands of people who trudge through the criminal-justice system daily and who speak no English, the phrase means literally nothing. For many of these defendants, the words are also legally empty. American justice for those who do not comprehend English is anything but uniform, let alone understandable. There are no nationwide standards for court interpreters, little training and virtually no monitoring. "Everybody gets a piece of due process," says David Fellmeth, a senior court interpreter in New York City...
...cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
...book has merits apart from its wit. Shields uses imagery well and has mastered setting and dialogue, though he occasionally lapses into the cliched. Undeniably, he does have a nice turn of phrase, especially in his satire...