Word: prating
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...talks about grades at Harvard even though, like Hornstine, we care about them immensely. Each Expository Writing paper brings fresh horror, as students prate for hours in the dining hall about their parsimonious preceptors and the unappreciated nuances of their argument. News of grade inflation traumatized campus because it threatened a dependable source of affirmation for 6,400 over-achievers who had never seen...
...that is gone now. The world has learned a bitter lesson—or perhaps it has not learned it, since so many continue to prate about the crimes of Israel, the innocence of Palestine, and the need to end the famous “cycle of violence.” This rhetoric is a relic of an earlier time, when the sufferings of the Palestinian people—their poverty, their existence as a subject people, their stifled aspirations of independence—were rightly laid at Israel’s door...