Word: schoolmarmishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems ironic that, as an organization which prides itself on case by case analysis, the Ad Board has voted an unnecessarily inflexible rule. The College should certainly inform graduate schools of serious offenses such as plagiarism. But do tutors have a similar moral obligation to describe, in a schoolmarmish way, less serious and often trivial cases? Does walking out onto the fire escape in the student's sophomore year warrant's several paragraphs in the House letter...
...Here, he portrays Jason Carmichael, "a witty, talented, acerbic, sarcastic, but always charming" and highly successful New York playwright. The day of his wedding to a glamorous socialite (Janet Eilber) also marks the beginning of a literary collaboration cum romantic entanglement with an aspiring young writer called Phoebe Craddock. Schoolmarmish, sweet, and socially inept, she has no trouble capturing the hearts of Jason, Mrs. Carmichael, their two children and a journalistic superstar called Leo (played with apparent reluctance by Ron Leibman...
...letter is very much in keeping with Kirkpatrick's style at the U.N. Although friends say she is shy and a bit uncomfortable with the social aspects of her job, many of her colleagues consider her "schoolmarmish" and "uppity...