So, be serious and do your duty of reading and memorizing formulas.
But they seem to have great difficulty in performing one of the central tasks in that duty, that of reading textbooks written in English.
The ex-VP records intros and hands off the main duties of actually reading the selected articles to a stable of voice actors.
Looking back at the lists of 2006's publishing highlights was a reminder not only of pleasures enjoyed, but of reading duties neglected.
He's following in the footsteps of Robert Frost and Gwendolyn Brooks, all laureates tasked with a broad swath of duties (lecturing, reading and welcoming new writers to the LoC) all the while hypothetically having time to work on their projects.
It becomes a kind of moral duty to read on.
To enforce the policy, General Alexander said that once a month all N.S.A. employees will be wired to a computer to take full inventory of what is going on in their minds: "We want to be sure they are spending their free time playing Call of Duty, not reading the Federalist Papers".
Their duties included reading and responding to client emails.
In the line of duty I read the copious details of the president's moments with Lewinsky, and I failed to find anything there that would have brought a blush to the cheek of anybody who had read "Fanny Hill" or "Portnoy's Complaint," both cheerful and enthusiastic about the possibilities of sex.
A captionless Searle drawing of two grumpy, top-hatted gents — off-duty undertakers — disapprovingly reading a copy of Life magazine is one of several cartoons on the jacket of "The Best of Punch Cartoons," and it catches your eye immediately.
