Word: polarizing
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...book on Robert Moses. I certainly am. We are not talking about an obsessive-compulsive disorder--some helpless yearning that erupts in incessant hand washing, the counting of numbers, words repeated over and over. All words and no play makes Jack a murderous boy. We are not talking about polar bears either. Young Tolstoy's brother told him to stand in the corner until he stopped thinking about the white bear. But Tolstoy was entrapped by fear of the unwanted thought, and so he thought of nothing else but white bears...
...It’s a completely bi-polar experience,” she says, “We have moments of ‘eureka’ and moments of wanting to pull our hair...
...polar opposite at Harvard in terms of interests it would probably be John A. Higgins ’02. He is a lover of rocks and glaciers and trail mix. But the thing that I adore about Higgilove is his authenticity. This is a guy who has never (at least to my knowledge) pretended to be someone who he is not or put on airs of Harvard pretension. And girls, this boy can dance...
...thinkers: Sigmund Freud, an atheist known for inventing psychoanalysis, and C.S. Lewis, an Oxford don, prolific writer and author of the popular children’s series (arguably a religious allegory) The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. These two opposing voices each seek to answer fundamental questions in polar ways: Lewis through God and Freud without. Although they never met, the technique of setting them on opposite podiums—with arguments drawn from their letters and other writings—is intriguing. They were certainly familiar with each other’s work and both are remarkably eloquent...
...were not seething with contempt or full of revenge for the other team. “I think it was a good chance to interact with each other in a normal, non-academic setting,” said Heck, “and realize that despite our almost polar differences, we can still have a good time together...