Word: squirming
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...thought Harvard Coach Tim Murphy would squirm, or look away, at the least. On the other hand, it was no surprise that the question was coming...
...would like to watch philosophers squirm--and who wouldn't?--pose this tough question: Suppose you may either a) solve a major philosophical problem so conclusively that there is nothing left to say (thanks to you, part of the field closes down forever, and you get a footnote in history); or b) write a book of such tantalizing perplexity and controversy that it stays on the required-reading list for centuries to come. Which would you choose? Many philosophers will reluctantly admit that they would go for option b). If they had to choose, they would rather be read than...
Prepare to squirm. Junior Parents' Weekend is upon us, and no matter how angelic parents may seem on their own turf, on-campus kin are unruly and unpredictable. They harrass timid waiters. They provoke professors. They discover alter egos...
Prepare to squirm. Junior Parents' Weekend is upon us, and no matter how angelic parents may seem on their own turf, on-campus kin are unruly and unpredictable. They harass timid waiters. They provoke professors. They discover alter egos...
...answer to the adultery question. "If we could get a caucus of all the candidates to agree to answer, 'None of your damn business,' that would change the world," says a Democratic consultant. "But that won't happen, because the clean guys will want to make the bad guys squirm." And in the G.O.P. it's not just the press they worry about, it's some fellow Republicans, especially those on the Christian right. The Rev. Lou Sheldon, who heads the Traditional Values Coalition, has said he will ask every candidate whether he or she has committed adultery...