But this writer left the antecedent singular, making a grammatical error you didn't seem to recognize. Jolly was loath to submit that this agreement was a sign of the grammatically incorrect times we live in. I enjoyed the Willow Run reminiscence by Olivia Murray Nichols . It brought to mind Ann Arbor author Harriet Arnow's The Dollmaker , whose characters inhabited those same paper-thin walled apartments during the war. Usually I am impelled to write, usually I resist.
Life consists of problem-solving.
Whatever your chosen field, problem-solving is where the rubber meets the road. In the classroom, students should be given problems to work out, applying techniques of whatever the course may be. They should discuss, exchange perceptions, argue passionately if not always logically. And they should work collectively, because most of us will spend our working lives dealing with others of similar or vastly opposing ideas. They have to learn that being right is not always the way to go, that being right but unable to convince others is valueless.