Word: impressionism
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Rudenstine, quoting his predecessor Derek Bok, tries to give the impression that recruiting black students for Harvard is a mere extension of a policy of diversity from geography to race. But there is a big difference he does not mention: the stubborn and unwelcome fact that blacks do not perform...
So he provided one. With gusto. Over his book's 177 pages, he calls the Seminar "a 10-year exercise in academic self-promotion" and a "self-indulgent charade" and accuses Funk of "grandiosity and hucksterism." More substantively, not only does he find the Seminar wildly unrepresentative of scholarly consensus...
Here was Clinton at his best and worst, showing his serial sincerity, his sweet tooth for books, ideas, intimacy, an appetite that powers his presidency and also frustrates it. He leaves the impression of a man who thinks conversation is a form of leadership and speechmaking a form of decision...
Her powers of persuasion were to no avail. Weinstein's body, with hands and feet bound, was discovered by a hiker on March 17. She had been smothered with her coat. But before she died she somehow slipped the cassette into her pocket without her killer knowing it. Because Weinstein...
Showing off their real talent--for publicity--the Sex Pistols announced a reunion tour last week, complete with shameless p.r. stunts like an offer to hold a benefit concert for Princess Di. A bit too wrinkled to carry off anarchic rage these days, the Pistols nevertheless do a good impression...