Word: pleasingness
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In a newspaper piece called "On Conversation," which he wrote shortly after forming the Junto, Franklin stressed the importance of deferring--or at least giving the appearance of deferring--to others. Otherwise, even the smartest comments would "occasion envy and disgust." His secret for how to win friends and influence...
“As he’s worked to gain more control over who becomes master, what happens is the senior tutors realize it’s not as much about being a presence in the House but pleasing University Hall and the Ad Board,” one...
“It is very pleasing,” he said. “It is a grueling process.”
Standing on the 15th floor of the new graduate school dormitory located across the Charles at the business school, you can see for miles. Looking back across the river draws the eye toward downtown Boston, which seems in completely the wrong place due to the river’s nearly...
The only cunning wrinkle in this series is the collective hero: a dozen or more supernal types, each bending the laws of physics in a peculiar fashion, each trying not to obstruct the others while implicitly angling for a spin-off series of his or her own. Though this tactic...