Word: regarding
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HOLLYWOOD, Time magazine, and other institutions that regard higher education as a branch of the entertainment industry would have difficulty understanding why Robert G. McCloskey was regarded as one of the most gifted teachers of his time. His lectures were not flamboyant, his writings not "popular"; he cultivated no eccentricities, and struck no poses. Though he loved the theater he detested the theatrical...
...answer key questions, it was disturbing in other respects. It played somewhat cheaply on the "Kennedy curse" and brought in rather more than necessary the shades of the slain brothers. Above all, Kennedy seemed to want it both ways. He asked to shoulder the blame for what happened: "I regard as indefensible the fact that I did not report the accident to the police immediately." At the same time he was obviously also begging to be excused. "I would understand full well why some might think it right for me to resign. I ask you tonight, the people of Massachusetts...
...individuality best. In a 1937 interview, the text of which Miss Babel has included in her book, he told the hounding members of the Union of Soviet Writers: "You talk about my silence. Let me tell you a secret. I have wasted several years trying, with due regard to my own tastes, to write lengthily, with a lot of detail and philosophy -striving for the sort of truth I have been talking about. It didn't work out with me. And so, although I'm a devotee of Tolstoy, in order to achieve something I have to work...
Satire is currently in such short supply that Downey has acquired a small but vocal following, who seem to regard him as a kind of cinematic Rabelais. The title is his strictly by default. In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Or at least some kind of prince...
...charged disputes ever to take place in the City's politics. Especially for its proponents, rent control came to be a symbolic showdown, a last ditch struggle against the forces which have been inexorably transforming the Cambridge they have known into a new City--one which they are best regard suspiciously...