Word: mastering
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...Political commentators, in their theme-of-the-week, have pronounced that Al Gore has been transformed from his former soporific self to a master of the martial arts, all fiery aggression, while Bradley has declined from the thinking Democrat's alternative to a condescending loser, who, though we do not wish to make too much of it, has that fibrillating heart...
...have never quite understood what, if any, useful intellectual purpose there is to exams. Most professors seem to give them out of pure laziness and pedagogical inertia rather than actually to test students' knowledge of the course material in any meaningful way. In the process, they force us to master a particular mode of communication--the exam answer--that is an ugly affront to written language...
That's the lesson Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck has learned after two years as the Master of Lowell House...
Delmont credits the House committee's targeted proposal and the assistance of Eck and Co-Master Dorothy A. Austin...
...hearing room, one of the more famous contestants carefully described how he had been instructed in the acting techniques appropriate to a man rising to conquer intense pressure. We then showed film of the show. As we watched his pretended labors of concentration and the jubilant excitement of the master of ceremonies at each successful prodigy of recall, the committee members and the audience burst into laughter. Yesterday's high drama had been transformed into today's hilarious farce...