Word: spitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under a glistening moon, the 60-ft. sailboat St. Joseph, moored off a spit of land on the southern coast of Haiti, was quickly loading its human cargo. Suddenly the silence of the night was broken by the sound of an approaching military boat. At first the people on the sailboat froze in fear, hoping the patrol would pass. But when three shots rang out, the St. Joseph headed toward open water, its crew and passengers in panic. Rushing from one side to the other to get away from the gunfire, many people fell or were pushed overboard. Then, when...
...Harvard Law School alumnus spit his food across the table after the Indy asked him for a $200 donation, Abram says...
...never drummed for himself. The exception came with the publication of Horses two years ago. At the time McCarthy was 58 and unknown outside a small mob of readers, quite a few of them critics, English professors or writers, who thought he was God. Being God didn't pay spit, though, and after five books and 30 years, McCarthy had his first agent, Amanda Urban, and a new editor, Gary Fisketjon, two of publishing's more glamorous figures. They impressed upon him the idea that a little publicity never hurt. "It was very simple," Fisketjon remembers. "He had no interest...
What does it take to be truly great lawyer? Or an outstanding psychologist? Or historian, or computer scientist, or sociologist? Is it an encyclopedic memory of all the details in one's field, which could be spit back at will? Knowledge of facts may help you get a job, but would it make you truly great? Most people would say no, as even the most mediocre scholar could look up the details of his trade in seconds. And as Albert Einstein has said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Open-book testing should go a long way towards fostering truly great minds. Students would be forced to go beyond the mere pretense of knowledge, in the form of spit-back ability, and develop to a point where their understanding is genuine...