Word: virtuouse
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...ditherer, to be blunt about it, up against a real political operator, on the order of Nixon. So we have a Stevensonian character and a Nixonian character. But they're not thinly disguised portraits, they're archetypes. Just for fun I made the political operator with a totally virtuous private life, perfect husband, everything, and the good guy has the biggest mess of a private life going...
...groaning. "You haven't met my family," I said. "They whine." With whiners, Gortmaker suggested a sneakier approach. Before moving to the sports phase, try a few stealth initiatives. First, no TV in the bedroom. (I love this one because my kids have never had TVs; I can feel virtuous without doing anything.) "There's a substantial relationship between TV viewing and obesity," Gortmaker warned. "It's also the commercials for food." Second, get the kids outside. (This is also good because it keeps them off the furniture.) "Just throw them out, and they'll get moving," he said...
...Swamp, I have come to think, capital punishment has lost whatever cautionary social force it had - its exemplary meaning, its power to proclaim, as it once arguably did, that some deeds are, in our fine and virtuous company, intolerable...
...satire of the gauche melodramas popular in Victorian England, according to Brian C. Gatten '01, the Gilbert and Sullivan Players historian. Ruddigore certainly manages to fulfill its role as a mockery, as it pokes fun at the Victorian cult of good manners through the character of the overly-virtuous village beauty, Rose Maybud, whose comical reliance on a book of ladies etiquette is played to the hilt throughout the show. Callan Barrett is perfectly cast as Rose, exaggerating all of her ultra-feminine gestures, right from the outset of her tiptoeing, eye lash-batting and basket-carrying entrance. Rose...
...world. That alone is a commentary on the pace of change in today's economy. The Internet has grown from a $5 billion business five years ago to a $500 billion one today, with annual growth rates of 50%. And in some sense, Cisco is the beneficiary of a virtuous cycle, so to speak, in which the very innovations that make its own products faster and increase the supply of bandwidth also supercharge demand for bandwidth, as faster computers mean we will want to download more video, more music and more of everything--all through Cisco-powered networks. "The user...