Word: understatedness
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Besides being a truly sharp dresser, Gordon Teskey also happens to be a professor of English and American Literatures and Languages.His teaching style has made him enormously popular. Case in point: a Facebook group entitled “Actually Gordon Teskey Should Narrate in Middle-English For the Rest of...
Bored by the challenge of redefining higher learning through the once-per-quarter-century Harvard College Curricular Review, professors hijacked yesterday’s Faculty meeting and directed its agenda once again toward criticisms of University President Lawrence H. Summers. The College is alive again? Nay, it is, unfortunately, floundering...
In other respects, the world has moved closer to Grant's way of thinking. In the mid-'90s, fashion began steering away from minimalism towards more voluminous shapes, and the designer (who was studying early 20th century pieces in museum collections) emerged with his own understated form of maximalism. From...
Directed by Terrence F. Malick ’65New Line Cinema3 starsIf you, like me, were born in the mid-to late ’80s, you’ve probably encountered the story of Pocahontas—which serves as the basis for “The New World?...
“My January remarks substantially understated the impact of socialization and discrimination, including implicit attitudes—patterns of thought to which all of us are unconsciously subject,” Summers wrote in the letter that was released on Thursday along with the transcript. ?...