Word: salient
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dying is easy," said Actor Edmund Gwenn at the end of his life. "Comedy is difficult." Perhaps that is why so many writers shun the genre. But there is a more salient reason. As Woody Allen sadly observes, "When you do comedy, you are not sitting at the grownups' table...
Once again, the University Administration has manifested its gross lack of consideration for the needs and problems of the students of Harvard-Radcliffe. The salient issue here is the absence of telephones in Claverly, Gore, Mather, McKinlock, Randolph! Russell and Westmorely Halls...
...Worse than that was Repologle's charge that Craft wasn't deferential enough to men as a reason why she was being demoted to reporter. Deference to men has nothing to do with the job of broadcasting, but it again shows that Repologle's actions against Craft were not salient to her work as a news anchor...
...most in his element while pottering around the seashore inspecting biological specimens. His evenings are generally spent at home with his wife watching soap operas and sumo wrestling on TV. In conversation, he rarely ventures anything more voluble than "Ah so desu ka [Is that so]?" Such are the salient features of the still, shy life of Emperor Hirohito, born as the 124th Imperial Son of Heaven in an unbroken line stretching back 2,643 years. Schooled since birth in the remoteness and reticence that become a deity, Japan's 82-year-old monarch remains to this...
...Another salient variation on the curricular theme is the summer edition's more liberal standards for academic coursework. Joining the ranks of "Multivariate Calculus," "Principles of Genetics," and "Shakespeare: A Survey of the Plays" are the likes of "Autobiography," "Basic Journalism," and "GMAT/GRE/MCAT Review Courses." (The latter, however, do not count for credit...