Word: washings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dinner in Adams. Tellawi tells FM she chose to study neuroscience because of a heart condition she has had since she was an adolescent and her brother’s diagnosis of diabetes at age six. 5:50- Back to Canaday basement. Tellawi hurries to wash up before prayers. 6:10- Muslim women from MIT arrive to participate in a joint halaqua, where the women read the Qur’an and discuss current issues in Islam. Tellawi and a few others read in Arabic from the Qur’an, and others read it in translation. 7:45- Halaqua...
...Washing its dirty laundry will also allow the Faculty to finally wash its hands of the extraneous concerns that have possessed it for the past year. Closing shop on the acrimony of the Summers years will keep it from coming back to once again obscure the Faculty’s more pressing concerns. The crucial issues of improving undergraduate teaching, reforming the curriculum and overhauling advising continue to demand the full attention and authority of the Faculty, as well as the confidence of the students and administration. The Faculty cannot start over on a blank slate without first wiping...
...Meanwhile, the Sparkses, especially Brian, come across to the white couple as defensive, suspicious and easily offended. In some of the black couple's incognito outings, their suspicions prove justified, as when a white man volunteers that he feels the urge to wash his hands after shaking hands with a black person. But the conflicts between the couples are more ambiguous. After the "black creature" incident, Brian and Renee wonder how Carmen would feel if someone called her a "magnificent white creature." What the Sparkses apparently don't see is that the effusive, dramatic Carmen probably wouldn't be offended...
...work as close as two feet away." Producers and participants say it did, but there were hitches. Brian, who gets a job as a bartender in a white neighborhood on the show, tells time, "I had to put my hands in water a lot, and there was some wash...
...would be too bad if viewers decide the lesson of Black. White. is that it's safest not to talk about race at all. If the show teaches anything, it's that race is unignorably dyed into the American experience. And no amount of cold cream can wash...