Word: salients
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Indeed, the interesting thing about the past month of post-election soul-searching is that the most salient cleavage is proving to be less left v. right than reform v. status quo. This fissure was of course prefigured by the Dean campaign, which was always less about pushing an ideological critique than about pressing its outsider reformist sensibility. So if you’re looking for a bellwether for the Democrats’ post-election direction, keep your eye on Dean’s bid to be the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair. Not to say that Dean...
Kate A. Tiskus ’06, a Crimson editor and history concentrator in Mather House, is editor-in-chief of the Harvard Salient...
...special effects, no flip-books, no PowerPoint presentations. What you had was a rather shy man talking about his philosophy of architecture. It was probably one of the worst presentations I've seen in my life." But once Taniguchi focused on his design and began pointing out the salient features of his model, says Riley, "there came this whole level of revelation and excitement." The committee, made up of heavy-hitting art collectors like cosmetics mogul Ronald Lauder and billionaire financier Sid Bass, unanimously approved Taniguchi's plan...
...individual narratives that are later linked to the broader plot. Though these transitions can at times seem too temporally driven—most of them begin with dates and their corresponding events—they do the trick, and keep the reader hooked in a story with tiny but salient details, such as the physical appearance of a particular reporter, or the layout of the Times’ cafeteria...
...When you write the truth, you ruffle some feathers,” Sawyer-Lauçanno said. “Some people want to preserve their notion of Cummings. I was obligated to tell the truth and not gloss over his darker and less salient aspects...