You can brag and puff out your chest about test scores, but that's not the true essence of our school".
But expertise in craftsmanship and the culinary arts was not the essence of the school; it existed to drill Nazi dogma into "sustainers of the race," those women who, under the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage, would be effectively bribed to produce babies.
In a pop culture that continues to festishize the "Superfly" early 70's, Shuggie Otis has prime style-icon credentials: a "funky" name, hip lineage (his father is the R & B legend Johnny Otis), and, in photos taken at the time of the record's original release, the sort of majestic, period-perfect Afro that magazine editors in New York and London have decided is the essence of old-school cool.
George Day, the chair of the project's faculty steering committee, says the first step was to define the essence of the business school, and what differentiated it from other top schools: "While Wharton is undoubtedly recognised for subjects like finance, that doesn't capture the breadth of the place.
Tampa Bay Times critic Sean Daly referred "Slow Down Baby" to as "the very essence of Aguilera", indicating "old school, new school and big vocal belting".
As we drove there, I could easily generate a mental simulacrum of its smell, a concentrated essence of antiquity, brass polish, school shoes, and institutional gravity.
Hokusai embodied in his long lifetime the essence of the Ukiyo-e school of art during its final century of development.
The essence of their education policy is schools competing for students, parents competing with one another for entrance into schools, and turning schools into profit centers for corporations.
In a valedictory from IESE business school in Spain, Mayank Sharma, one of our regular diarists, passes on what he has learnt from his MBA NOW that my MBA at IESE is over, I often sit back and think: what was the essence of my time at business school.
The essence of the tournament is that smaller schools can come in and strut their stuff.
