Word: shrift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, keeping tuition rates low means cutting back somewhere else, just as reducing section size (as Knowles would like to do) would mean something else would get short shrift. Although we know times are hard, we wish donors would give restricted funds to Harvard not only for students' scholarships, which are critical, but for smaller sections. The benefits in good teaching, especially in Core classes, would be immeasurable...
...maybe--most likely--many Harvard students simply haven't been exposed to these movies. Foreign films, classics and art films all too often are shoved in video store corners or given short shrift on popular movie house screens...
...have to wonder why education is getting such short shrift in our society today. As an investment, its potential for economic growth is unmatched. A college education has become an absolute necessity in the job market; why would the Congress try to lower the competence level of working Americans...
...Prominent communitarian Amitai Etzioni, in highlighting the shortcomings of most institutionalized child care, has duly stressed the virtues of parents' "co-oping," working part time at day-care centers. Still, the stark declaration in his book The Spirit of Community that "infants are better off at home" gives short shrift to the innately social nature of infants and mothers. That women naturally have a vocational calling as well as a maternal one suggests that workplace-based, co-operative day-care centers may deserve more attention...
...only live album ever to be released in his lifetime, Band of Gypsys was recorded essentially for free in order to liberate Hendrix from a crooked contract with promoter Ed Chalfin. Partly because of the history behind the album, Band of Gypsys has traditionally been given short shrift by causal Hendrix listeners who are drawn to the catchier themes of his three studio albums, Are You Experienced Axis, Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland...