Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...point I intended to make is that--as part of our effort to enhance the independence of blind students--we have been asking students to take active responsibility for a number of aspects of their enrollment. By having students deal directly with Recording for the Blind (a lending library with more than 70,000 educational texts on tape), we enable them to develop the advocacy skills that will carry them from college into the working world...
...Crimson Key is to present Harvard: architecturally, academically, anecdotally and socially. Students and parents, domestic and international tourists alike, are given almost identical tours. During an hour-long stroll around campus, the guides point out historic buildings and statues, discuss admissions criteria and academic standards and highlight extracurricular organizations...
...friends, and certainly not to 100 or so impatient orchestra players. Besides, any conductor who was foolish enough to flog his musicians with images of leaves -- let alone leaves whimpering in denial -- would be hooted off the podium at the first fluttering whimp. Thomas learned a lesson on this point in his callow days during a rehearsal of Also Sprach Zarathustra with the Chicago Symphony. All his schoolboy nattering on the intellectual subtext of Strauss evoked only sly mockery from the musicians. At length, Thomas got the message...
Michael, who was born in Los Angeles, believes his birthday, Dec. 21, has an almost mystical significance. "It's the longest night of the year and the shortest day," he explains. "So this is a very important balancing point for me -- it's where I feel my maximum strength. As the days grow shorter, I get stronger and stronger. Somehow, maybe the moment in which the clock has first started ticking and the moment when you first make your entrance into this world are important in some...
...purely a business decision," said the note left by Alex Council for his wife Kay in their High Point, N.C., home in 1988. "You will find my body on the lot on the north side of the house." In a chilling tale for taxpayers, the widow last week told a Senate subcommittee that her husband, 49, killed himself so she could use his $250,000 life insurance policy to fight a claim by the Internal Revenue Service that the Councils owed $300,000 in taxes...