Word: suggest
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However, many of the proctors don't know what to do with the prefects, and the prefects don't have a clue what their role is. The FDO runs a couple of "training sessions" which are supposed to enlighten prefects and suggest ways to interact with freshmen, but the first one was so boring and of so little value that I didn't bother going to the second--which took place three months later...
...makes a persuasive case for Wolfe's idiom and energies. But he also acknowledges that his subject "wrote more bad prose than any other major writer I can think of." The only disputable word is major. The quotes from the novels -- not to say the novels themselves -- suggest the literary equivalent of a dinosaur: vast in structure, unoccupied by thought and, after all the ponderous effort, wholly extinct...
...describing both conflicting visions impartially, to be making no judgment on their comparative merits, but somehow the quasi-liberal unconstrained vision often seems to lead to positions that few liberals would accept as their own. Sowell cites John Stuart Mill's admiration for "the most cultivated intellects" to suggest that the unconstrained are elitist, and hypocrites as well. "It is consistent for the unconstrained vision to promote equalitarian ends by unequalitarian means," he writes, "given the great differences between those whom Mill called 'the wisest and best' and those who have not yet reached that intellectual and moral level...
RATHER THAN destroying a city in the old scientific style, an English major might suggest sending a Harvard professor behind enemy lines to broadcast lectures on the use of the word "the" as traced through Milton's Paradise Lost. When everyone in the enemy country falls asleep, we could then run in and wreak havok by painting every third house magenta, or possibly mauve...
...face of rising educational costs, the Secretary of Education has joined the call for greater accountability among the nation's colleges and universities, saying "The Department of Education has an obligation...to suggest better means by which the higher education consumer can be confident he is buying a sound product...