Word: echo
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Because of this excessive secrecy, the committee is not accountable for its actions to anyone other than Rudenstine. As a result, there are often accusations of conflicts of interest and unfairness that echo behind the scenes long after a tenure decision has been made. Berkowitz, who was denied tenure despite a strong record as a teacher and a positive recommendation from his department, has accused Harvard of failing to follow its own policies in hearing his complaints. The Jan. 4 ruling allowing the case to go forward may cause documents surrounding the tenure decision to be made public as part...
...everyone has an opinion about “Temptation Island.” Religious and family groups decry its glamorization of promiscuity and its compromising of relationships for the sake of entertainment. Most people though, echo one Pfohoser’s description: “Hideously awesome,” she wrote on the Pfoho-Open e-mail list. You can almost see the wry grin on her face...
...ancient Greek philosopher Isocrates said that the greatest loyalty any counselor could show a prince was to be frank and candid. It is more important for a prince, said Isocrates, to surround himself with those who disagree with him than it is to rely on those who echo his point of view. "Frankness is a virtue in a counselor," Isocrates wrote, "who must risk the ire of princes foolish enough to be offended when contradicted...
...they consist basically of what investigators call "self-reports," which are more susceptible to social pressure than, say, viral-antibody counts. It's also easier to talk about being "stressed out" in today's pop-psychology culture than it was when Dwight Eisenhower was President. Yet Twenge's conclusions echo the concerns of many parents, teachers and pediatricians. "I think children are more anxious," says Dr. Thomas McInerny, professor of pediatrics at the University of Rochester. "Clinicians, pediatricians, psychologists--we're all seeing more...
...brilliance of the orchestration was in the third movement nocturne, in which Corigliano attempted to recreate the sound he heard during a stay in Morocco, when the calls of muezzins from different mosques collided and "created a glorious counterpoint." In the symphony, beautiful dovetailing lines shimmer and seem to echo off each other, something unattainable in the quartet version. A wild fugue using different tempos for each statement of the subject (but notated in the same meter for all instruments) leads into the postlude, where repetitions of the minor third interval perhaps intentionally recall the last movement of Mahler...