Word: stares
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...reality. More importantly, students should realize that they are the agents who produce their own perfection. No collection of bricks and bylaws will ever, on its own, constitute a utopia; to naively believe so is to walk into a trap. In place of willful ignorance, new students ought to stare head-on into the problems of the place, and, instead of finding them depressing, such confrontation should assert students’ right to orient themselves against problems in whatever fashion they please...
...fact, they aren't so much people we see in movies as people we know. They stare at the TV, pretending fascination with a game show as a way of avoiding either a conversation that's sure to turn prickly or a long night of sullen introspection. They offer old doggerel - like Eleanor Roosevelt's "Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery, today's a gift. That's why they call it the present" - as eternal wisdom. The men in Snow Angels have the appetites of the philanderers they see in movies but not the suave patter; a cheating husband...
...read about and heard about from diplomats and refugees and defectors started to become real. In the late afternoon gloom, we passed row after row of apartment buildings and office buildings, almost all unlit. People either trudged along the side of the road or rode bikes, many stopping to stare at our convoy. And every mile or so, there stood in the middle of the road a female traffic cop in an aqua blue uniform and a fur-lined hat, holding herself ramrod straight and wielding a baton to point the way to drivers. She had one of the world...
...commencement speaker is supposed to motivate and inspire graduates, as they stare out into the wild blue yonder of their post-college years. What could J. K. Rowling possibly have to say for herself? Perhaps: “If you want to change the world, sell hundreds of millions of copies of your books. Don’t give up. Follow your dreams. Wingardium Leviosa...
Four a.m. rolls around, and it’s finally time to write that thesis—or at least that thesis title. After sitting down at your computer, you open a blank document and carefully set down your pithy words. You stare at the screen for a while, only slightly distracted by imaginings of deep-fried foods and ice cream. You center a colon on the page but suddenly your eyes alight upon a web ad for a board game: Candyland. You see an article about the latest possibility for a Yard Fest performer: Jimmy Eat World. No more...