Word: sunlights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...friends for what promised to be a week of mind-numbing frivolity. Here there would be no talk of job offers (or lack thereof) or anything even remotely related to academics. Everything that I had been deprived of, including partying, relaxation, quality time with friends and most of all sunlight, was now well within my reach...
There is a problem, but affirmative action is not the solution. Take the analogy of growing plants. If one is put in good soil and given water and sunlight, it will grow tall and flower. Put that same plant in bad soil, neglect it of water or leave it in the shade, and the plant will not grow properly. If, seeing this malnourished plant, you pull on it to make it taller, could you then say it is a good flower? No. The solution is to give the flower what it needs from the start. Early education programs, Head Start...
Okay. Maybe this seems melodramatic and bordering upon ridiculous. But it's true. And this bitter truth is no more ridiculous than the nebulous and elusive word "merit" itself. Let's take a simple example. If two seeds are planted and one is watered, given fertile soil, exposed to sunlight and otherwise nurtured while the other seed is neglected and left in dry, rocky soil in a dark closet, would scientists be correct in stating that the first seed (which sprouted, of course) had "merit" while the second (dead on arrival...
...feels for a moment as if you both go way back. She is dressed crazysexycool: a puffy hat, a low-cut leotard top with a cardigan throwover, knickers, black boots. There is a freshly cut apple sweetness about her face and also something simultaneously sad and bright, like sunlight off a raindrop. This amiable radiance is, of course, why she's a star, and you're getting it firsthand now, unfiltered, undiluted. Still, she's got a tricky, winding road ahead. Finding film scripts as well written as her TV series, scripts that aren't steaming chunks...
Last year, I had nothing to complain about; my first-floor corner Hollis room had big windows which let in plenty of light (and tourists' glances). Now, my north-easterly-facing bedroom receives direct sunlight only between 6 and 8 a.m. No matter how good this arrangement might be for early-morning study sessions I sometimes plan but always seem to sleep through, my room is a cavern after...