Word: sloth
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...help but succumb to his rage. The final scene shows him angrily setting a vehicle on fire, then staring into the destruction. Some music videos are made purely to entertain, while others are made to instruct. By using the extended allegorical image of the swine to represent sloth, greed, and wickedness, and mixing with it the features and body of a man, González provocatively suggests that our animal nature is closer to the surface than we think...
...Trophée des Amateurs Gourmands in Lyon, France. “The contest itself was secondary to having a good time with food and wine for a week,” Pavloff says of his adventure abroad. “It was this week of sloth and debauchery.” Pavloff moonlighted as a chef in Boston during his senior year, but didn’t pursue the culinary arts as a profession. Now an engineer, he has put French debauchery aside and cooks mostly for himself and his family. For Joanne B. Chang...
...during their time off. So it is shameful to see that the administrators in charge of pushing General Education afforded themselves vacations in lieu of taking even baby steps in the march to implement the new curriculum. Reinvigorating Harvard’s Core will require a Herculean effort, and sloth is not an option. This delay in curricular development has already had consequences for the newest crop of freshmen. When the Class of 2011 arrived on campus, their revamped advising system contained hardly a mention of Gen Ed, but many a mention of the Core. “We were...
This is tough medicine to swallow for a college student who might rank sloth well above adultery or theft on the scale of mortal sins. Summer, Harvard-style, has given up its childhood role as vacation; it has even shaken off its role at lower-strung colleges as interruption. It has become an individually-made replica of Harvard itself, as if we all grow so lonely of Cambridge’s stresses during our three months away that we must rebuild them wholesale by some facsimile. Summertime is so indistinguishable from the other nine months of our lives that...
...cardinal sin involved is not just greed. It is also sloth. Congressional officials estimate there could be tens of thousands of bills awaiting attention, some of them dating back more than 30 years. Hubris is another problem. Responsible for policing themselves, legislators have gone easy on those involved in alleged wrongdoing and acquitted many of those accused of involvement in the scandals. Avarice is rife: faced with better offers, 194 deputies swapped parties during the last session and 14 of the new batch have switched their affiliation before even taking office. The problem for Lula and Brazil is that changing...