Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finding an overseas Job--or more accurately in many cases, creating one--can be an easy prospect or a decidedly difficult one, depending on where you want to go and what you want...
...pretty damned scared to write that piece. My first year was a tough one. The ghosts in my emotional closet got up and stalked en masse through my Grays West room. The prospect of coming to terms with the year in print I found ironic. My troubled identity as a writer was the most ominous ghost of them all. Writing (trying to write is more accurate) was a tremendous source of pain. But it was also the way I survived...
...pretty damned scared to write that piece. My first year was a tough one. The ghosts in my emotional closet got up and stalked en masse through my Grays West room. The prospect of coming to terms with the year in print I found ironic. My troubled identity as a writer was the most ominous ghost of them all. Writing (trying to write is more accurate) was a tremendous source of pain. But it was also the way I survived...
...Jail is not a nice place to be and the prospect of serving 59 counts at five years apiece is not pleasant," said local political talk show host Glenn S. Koocher '71, who has known Walsh for 25 years...
...able to believe what anyone else is saying. But there also seems to be an honesty threshold, a point beyond which a virtue turns mean and nasty. Constantly hearing the truth, the cold, hard, brutal unsparing truth, from spouses, relatives, friends and colleagues is not a pleasant prospect. "Human kind," as T.S. Eliot wrote, "cannot bear very much reality." Truth telling makes it possible for people to coexist; a little lying makes such society tolerable...