Word: tangental
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Loker Professor of English Robert J. Kiely was reciting the decorated prose of a 17th century high-church Anglican when he interrupted himself last week to talk about fashion magazines. But, as he explained to the massive Emerson 105 lecture hall, this was no tangent...
When I ask Gould if science is (mis)represented in the media, he goes on a tangent about how an alarming number of people—Harvard undergraduates included—don’t know why we have seasons. Gould’s many books and essays, including The Structure of Evolutionary History, also follow this fascinatingly digressive, metaphorical route. His famous monthly column in National History magazine began in January 1974 and ended in January 2001, upon the “fortuitous” publication of the 300th essay. Gould calls them “popular, conventional?...
...most of the international community (and even the U.S. security establishment), protecting the U.S. mainland against an as-yet hypothetical threat of attack by intercontinental ballistic missiles is not exactly a pressing concern - indeed, it's as if the U.S. has gone off on something of a tangent. Washington will be indulged - what does Putin have to lose by engaging in lengthy negotiations over the scope of the system if the U.S. is going to build it anyway? - but not followed. In the end, nobody's going to try and stop the U.S. from building a high-tech Maginot Line...
...Internet encourages a choose-your-own-adventure book that never ends. Like Datesite.com--which sucks more people in with every failed match--the Web as a whole is a self-perpetuating, all-consuming being that almost guarantees we will never be satisfied. Links move us farther along on a tangent; dead-ends make us frustrated...
...quick, but essential, tangent: I, too, fit the mold. In my blue jeans and monochrome sweater that wasn't even light blue, I blended into the crowd just as well as everyone else. I don't exclude myself from this critique. Quite the contrary: I am writing out of concern and discouragement about myself and my friends and this campus that belongs...