Word: guardedness
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For years, officials at the Harvard admissions office could diseminate their version of the events in Byerly Hall virtually without fear of contradiction. They jealously guarded specific data about applicants, keeping potentially embarassing information away from critical eyes.
A few days later, a French archaeologist guides Auel through Laugerie Haute, a vast excavation site under a cliff. She asks for details about how hearths were spaced, seeking hints on how families may have guarded their privacy. "This will be Jondalar's apartment building," she says. At Font-de...
Whether or not it is his favorite area, however, Fisher has spent more time in the Middle East than anywhere else, and in a less-guarded moment he admits that his interview with Nasser--the last one granted to a Westerner before the president's death--was a "high point...
Running hard for re-election in North Carolina, Senator Jesse Helms is enlisting the so-called dirty pictures he has so publicly opposed. At a barbecue in Burlington, Helms' speech included an invitation -- men only, please -- to examine three portfolios guarded by his assistants. "You won't look long because...
When this seemingly innocuous phrase appeared in Wilson's 1975 book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, it set off alarm bells as surely as ant pheromones trigger the defense mechanisms of a threatened colony. Critics scrambled out of the corners of the academy to attack Wilson's ideas as dangerously deterministic...