Word: wording
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...Brown has done. He spent much of his speech focusing on the need for major developing nations like China to make their own moves on climate change, which sounded a little hypocritical after years of American foot-dragging. "It was great to have a visionary speech with the right word from Obama," says Steve Howard, the CEO of the Climate Group, an international nonprofit group focused on global warming. "But with so little time left, we needed more substance...
...least in the traditional sense, is a troubling “no.” It’s true that “genius” has become a catch-all term of praise for everything from violin playing to political strategy. Yet modern understanding of the word is best explicated by rapper and self-proclaimed genius Kanye West, as good a barometer of the cultural zeitgeist as any: “If you read books—which I don’t, none at all—about how to become a billionaire, they always...
...will say, ‘Oh, by the way...’” said Gorodentsev in an interview yesterday. “If you’re not walking around, you’re not bumping into people. You’re not hearing the valuable word on the street. You’re not feeling the vibe of the place.”This managerial perspective has proved critical in her transition from the central administration to FAS. With her extensive administrative experience in various hubs throughout Harvard, Gorodentsev said she emphasizes on-the-ground communication...
...example, I’ve tried to figure out what caused the alternations between glacial and inter-glacial climates over the past several million years.” Applied Mathematics Professor Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan could not be reached for comment yesterday. According to Socolow, the key word is “creativity,” which the Foundation purposely chooses not to define. He disagrees with the nickname “genius award” because it is far too limiting. “‘Genius’ is not descriptive enough,” Socolow said...
...after 35 years of writing novels, Pamuk told an audience in Sanders Theater that “being a novelist is the art of...being both naïve and sentimental.” Pamuk said that he was using the word sentimental in its particular German sense—reflective—which he came to admire by reading Friedrich Schiller’s “On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry,” an inspiration for his current lectures, called “The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist...