Word: relaxedness
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The true reason, I suspect, was fear of the Board of Overseers itself. For 100 years the Board has been a polite, compliant group, quietly rubber-stamping the administration's decisions. President Eliot--no slouch when it came to gathering power for the administration--said that the Board should maintain...
If anybody gets bored, "work" is always there to divert our attention. There's no purposeful social setting, or hidden "friendly" agenda, and so there's no pressure to build conversations. We free associate through the shift with random spurts of silliness and sarcasm--a relaxed series of laughs and...
So why did Cuomo, in a biblical paraphrase he has often used in interviews, "let the cup pass"? Was it, perhaps, timing? "When you are second in the polls and you haven't even gotten in the game yet, there isn't any reason to be discouraged," said a wry...
"It was definitely our biggest win," Harvard Assistant Coach Steve Bzomowski said. "We were playing relaxed, while they were playing with a lot of pressure on them."
During the 1984 campaign, Hart was pricked by questions about discrepancies in accounts of his age (he was born in 1936, not 1937 as one official resume said) and the shortening of his name from Hartpence. The points grew in significance when Hart faltered in explaining them. His aides recently...