Word: akin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech at Harvard, the University of Chicago's Allan Bloom put his finger on this modern instinct of university students by way of analogy. Today's students, Bloom argued, are akin to the dogs of Plato's Republic, who are warm with friends and fierce toward enemies for no other reason than familiarity with the former and ignorance of the latter...
...many undergraduates, the idea is akin to the seventh circle of hell, but Nancy Sommers, Sosland director of expository writing, is extending the Expos experience into four years for 422 members of the Class...
...with a bow-tie and a flower in his lapel to address their concerns, Lewis and several administrators at other colleges argue that one does not need to be called a "dean of students" to be a dean of students. At other schools, they argue, administrators who hold titles akin to those of Dingman and Herschbach, or even Lewis often fulfill Epps' responsibilities...
...with memorable fashion imagery--Vivien Leigh's Gone With the Wind green velvet, Audrey Hepburn's Sabrina cocktail sheath, Jean Seberg's T shirts in Breathless, almost anything Mike Myers wore in Austin Powers--but how often can articles of clothing be credited with having a performance-enhancing power akin to, say, a film's director? It happened, it seems, during the shooting of Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine, an homage to the David Bowie '70s and the world of men in makeup. According to Toni Collette, who played a rock-star wife, all the leopard print and lame she wore...
Well, where did this design for a stool originate anyway? Is a good social life for students an institutional responsibility akin to their academic experience and their educational extracurricular activities? Of course human interactions are important here; the residential system and extracurricular activities are designed to promote interpersonal learning and the development of teamwork, leadership skills and other kinds of social development. But what is "social life" as a separate item that is Harvard's responsibility...