Word: awk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interest Dara Horn's opinion piece in your Oct. 24 issue ("Becoming a Bad TF: All You Need to Know.") While Horn dutifully qualifies her negative--and, granted, not completely inaccurate--assessments of her data, the sarcasm which Horn directs against all teaching fellows as a species is often "Awk," at best, and of limited wit (i.e., "Nice Work": B+...make that a B). In fact, I wasn't quite sure what the overall point of Horn's article was, until I read Reader Representative Noelle C. Eckley's companion piece, printed directly above it ("Filling The Crimson: Better Judgment...
...Comments should be short and to the point. For example, you might choose to draw a short vertical line alongside about half a paragraph of the student's paper. Next to it, write "Awk...
...last I had heard of Chelsea Clinton, she was just a little child about to embark on her adolescent adventures in the public eye. I remembered the ugly things that had been written and said about her in the press, all those phrases with the words 'pubescent' and 'awk-ward' in them. Was she nearing college age? What would she be doing at Harvard? Surely...