Word: mereness
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Nietzsche's damning link to deception seems to stem from the prevailing emphasis on his early writings. In a now-popular unpublished essay, Nietzsche proclaimed that truth is an "illusion," as we live in a world of mere appearances...
...point was not (as your quote suggests) that such manuals are irrelevant; my point was that Harvard's resources for TFs extend far beyond a mere manual. If the manual were the only resource available to TFs, the Core program would be in trouble indeed. But Clearly that is very far from the case...
Open-book testing should go a long way towards fostering truly great minds. Students would be forced to go beyond the mere pretense of knowledge, in the form of spit-back ability, and develop to a point where their understanding is genuine...
...team take no voyeuristic pleasure from grotesque events they uncover. Nor do they condescend unduly to the queens and pawns in their investigation. The cops are just doing a job -- one that makes their off-duty lives look drab and irrelevant. Scenes of Tennison's wan private life are mere leavening agents in the acrid yet tangy melodrama that is her life on the force -- the only life she has, really...
...often than others. Herbert Hoover was the only occupant of the Oval Office since TIME began in 1923 who was not on our cover, although he was portrayed there before and after his presidency. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won an unprecedented four presidential elections, was our cover subject a mere nine times. By contrast, two-termer Ronald Reagan was pictured on 44 of our domestic covers...