Word: thingness
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...cash is very socially awkward. The exceptions are for parents to children, grandparents to grandchildren, aunts and uncles to nieces and nephews. It's O.K. for cash to flow from those of higher social status to those of lower social status, but [otherwise] it's just considered a tacky thing to do. Which makes the growth of gift certificates remarkable, because they're not tacky at all. I mean, recipients rate them as their most desired gift. In some sense, it's a way for givers to give a gift that has the flexibility of cash, without the tackiness...
...Blake ’08, the foundation seeks crazy or eccentric ideas that have never been done before and that will catch the public eye and make an impact.“We aren’t going to give you a thousand bucks to build a sweet-ass thing in your living room and never show it to anyone,” says Blake.Josh Gordonson, a sophomore at MIT and the winner of October’s “Awesome Fellowship,” exemplifies the foundation’s desire to fund cool ideas—literally?...
...each individual coach and team decide whether DHAs would be a good thing for them,” said Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise...
...What’s the biggest thing you’ve learned from working with...
...Well, I think for me as a filmmaker the biggest thing I learned is that you as a filmmaker really can’t impose your narrative on somebody else. And when he and his community responded to that FBI raid [of their mosque]...they were saying that things were going to work out for them, and they were going to be better people. I had trouble comprehending that. You have to be super, super patient and sometimes go beyond your comfort zone to really capture the story...