Word: neatness
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There was a fundamental flaw in your selection process. By beginning your search for the 100 with neat categories and subcategories, you oversimplified a complicated century and avoided the most interesting debates. For example, by allowing room for only one writer and one visual artist, you begged the questions, Are writers and artists equally influential? Is a TV host as important? Could there be a second writer whose influence outweighs, say, Bart Simpson, your choice as cartoon character? You effortlessly sidestepped these questions. And so again an interesting idea is dumbed down for an impatient society. PETER MARTINO Roxbury, Conn...
While the money poured into Harvard's Commencement is visible in the manicured lawns, neat rows of chairs and vast tables of appetizers that are prepared for June 4, another facet of Commencement--that is, how much seniors must spend--is sometimes overlooked...
...neat thing about this latest appointment," Frable said, "is that he really has this dream about young people in the Red Cross... We told him what it would take and he actual- ly did the work...
...delightful change of pace can be summed up as: an American girl abroad looks around and thinks. Her observations and reflections are presented in 54 short, numbered sections. Reading them is similar to listening to a series of piano etudes, each with its own theme playfully developed. Baker's neat trick is to make the difficult task of conveying an emerging childhood consciousness look easy and innocent. There are no yucky parts. As Nory, pretending to be her mother, says, "There are, it is true, many terrible things in real life, but you two are young...
Like the finest Picasso paintings, the collision of these financial giants hints at a deeper, more complex revolution. The neat little boxes in which we store our finances--mortgage, cash, savings, and so on--are being subdivided in a million ways. Soon you won't recognize them individually. For instance, all your assets could be wrapped into a wealth account that is constantly on the prowl for investing opportunity worldwide...