Word: renowned
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Imagine yourself transported to a new world. There are no boring lectures, tedious roommates, or assigned readings. There is only peril. You can gain worldwide renown for performing feats with just the movement of your fingers. Time invested provides direct and measurable rewards. And then, your alarm goes off, shattering the fantasy world that you have lived and played for the past night. It’s time for that brutal morning lecture. You now face an important decision: Spend the next few hours in utter misery, or skip class and continue with the life you have come to love...
...have a degree in sociology, have executive-produced films, and have forayed into fields of culture and childhood. How has your renown as sex therapist extraordinaire affected your ability to focus on other aspects of sociology...
...innumerable encounters that I have had, a deep phobia has grown,” she wrote. “Never in my life have I had to live in these conditions before coming to Harvard, and frankly I think that the University should be absolutely ashamed...For the world-renown[ed] university to simply ignore this problem is unacceptable.” It appeared that at least one Lowell resident thought that the University’s shame should spring from a different source. In an e-mail to the Lowell open list sent less than two hours after...
...encounter until graduate school. “This is probably the most difficult undergraduate math class in the country,” reads a page on the Mathematics Department Web site. While other universities like MIT offer similar, highly competitive courses, Math 55 is singular in its history and renown...
...fiction as he touches upon everything from art to politics. Bunuel mentions how figures like Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, and Charlie Chaplin dressed, drank, and behaved at orgies. The charm of “My Last Sigh” comes from the fiction, as well as the credibility and renown of Bunuel’s friends and foes...