the holy writ = bible

assertive = confident opp. timid

nurturing opp. Neglect

And best of all, Slack breaks the double bind, in which women are disliked for being either too assertive or too nurturing. 

Gurnah won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is the first Black writer to win the award — considered the most prestigious in world literature — in almost three decades.

The tests are key to improving day-to-day life in the pandemic, David Leonhardt explained this week.