Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interested in advancing the cause of excellent teaching and learning in Harvard College and through the University, then the new technologies--properly used--are very much on our side. They also remind us of the ideal I mentioned earlier--the goal of integrating research, exploration, teaching, discovering and learning in a way that dissolves the lines between them, bringing faculty and students together in what is really a common pursuit...
...ability to "forget all the political stuff and be a mom" while ambling past a hunt-country-style wooden fence in tennis shorts and sweater. The ad is clearly intended to make a family-to-family connection between the Governor and her electorate. But its unintended effect is to remind viewers of the wide chasm that separates this upper-crust clan, which beds down at the 222-acre Pontefract Farm, from the average undecided voter trying to pay the taxes on a row house in Bayonne...
...class contact, do not, under any circumstances, learn how to use e-mail. It is important, however, to collect student e-mail addresses and occasionally send out a notice that says, "Just wanted to remind you that section time has been changed to 7 a.m.," thus deceiving students into thinking that you have a functioning e-mail account. Once or twice during the semester, a student might ask you whether you received an e-mail message from them. Don't be fooled. The answer is always...
...projects that are accomplished here, all the ideas generated, Harvard can be, and sometimes is, a very isolating place. The strange story about a 15-year-old going to school for the first time can remind us, too, about how easy it is to get lost and how a simple telephone call can find someone again...
Take Judy Tanaka. Ostensibly the first character proffered up to the reader, Judy hamhandedly announces her role in the book to her therapist in the opening pages: "It's not just a metaphor. Look at me. Don't I remind you of anything?... It doesn't need a genius to see what's going on. Greater London, c'est moi." Fittingly, the city will be the meeting place between Judy and the novel's hero-oid, Mick...