Word: preciousness
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Your art teachers think you a budding painter, though you shrug that off. That's O.K. But if you should become an artist, ignore the critics. Some precious few critics have an artist in them, but most are a desperate, shriveled lot who have found a way to touch art without making it. The half-nuts architect Roark in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is confronted by the critic who tried to destroy him. "Why don't you tell me what you think of me," says the critic. To which Roark responds, "I don't think...
Gonzalez also defends reading period, saying it allows students precious moments of repose...
...Most students are desperate to take really good courses in their precious four years here, and I understand that," says William M. Todd III, incoming dean of undergraduate education...
This is the value of Harvard's endowment at the end of fiscal year 1995. By 1996, the endowment's value had risen 26 percent to $9.1 billion, due mainly to the bull market, but just as important to this increase has been Harvard's frugal management of its precious nest...
...think it is unfortunate that students feel these pressures upon what is, after all, a very precious four years of their lives, when they can explore the world of the mind," Todd says...