Word: wavelength
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...really on the wrong wavelength," says Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert '59, a member of the FAS Committee on Information Technology. "Central planing and central administration doesn't work in a university.... I rest having someone tell us what to buy and what...
...another wavelength, most U.N. officials, aid workers and the leader of the Tutsi rebels, Laurent Kabila, talked of a more grandiose mission entirely. They expected not just simple handouts but a major effort to settle the violent tribal and political quarrels. Kabila told a news conference that any force that came in without a mandate to disarm the Hutu militias "would be useless." Others figured events and pressures on the ground would induce mission creep. "Let's get them in on one mandate," said a U.N. official in New York City, "and see what happens when they get shot...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV DIED IN 1977 to mixed reviews. Not everyone was captivated by his erudition, multilingual wordplay and narrative frolics. But those who tuned to his wavelength came to appreciate that the style and gamesmanship so intimidating to his competition disguised the author's larger task: to heighten the pleasures of the natural world and the gratifications of personal creativity...
Franklin says she was fortunate enough to find a physics professor who was on the same wavelength as her and shared her embrace of the unconventional. She spent hours in his office solving physics problems. He later went on to become a Sufi dancer, while she went on to become a particle physicist...
...Harvard, the problem wasn't that specific players weren't playing badly but that they didn't play as a team. In a sense, the team wasn't on the same wavelength...