Word: 22nd
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...peruse the strip in sequence - as you can in the handsome collection called The Spirit Archives, now up to its 22nd volume - is to see Eisner shift within genres and tones. One week's story might be a melodrama, the next a comedy, the third a parable. But beyond the variety of stories was a striking visual consistency: the tone was bold, dark and mature - a grownup vision, compared to the adolescent world-view of the standard superhero strip. To quote Feiffer: "Will Eisner was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books - the Fritz Lang school...
While A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, donated the funds for Lowell Lecture Hall before he became Harvard's 22nd president, the initial gift was anonymous and the building was not named in his honor until after his 1943 death, according to historian Andrew B. Schlesinger ’70. The Jan. 10 story "A Presidency Unsealed" incorrectly reported that the naming of the lecture hall preceded Lowell's rise to Harvard's top post...
...Leave aside the immense challenge to policymakers and politicians of balancing the needs of old and young, of old and older. The experts this week release their report about educating children for the 21st century; but today's children may live into the 22nd. What would they need to know, what skills, what habits, what sense of adventure, if a lifetime lasts so much longer than our lifetimes ever have before? Will they go to school not just as children but again and again through their lives, because no body of knowledge will last 125 years...
...worn red leather Bible. "And yes, I say us, and not the Americans. For we are all involved in this story. We don't love enough in this world. Actually, we don't really love at all." For one 13-year-old here at the funeral of the 22nd person to be executed in Texas this year, the explanation is simpler: the death penalty is "something stupid...
...captain Tom Hegge said. “Every time we send five guys out there, it’s a nice feeling to know everyone can play well.” Sophomore Michael Shore and freshman Danny Mayer also had a strong tournament for Harvard. Shore tied for 22nd overall, scoring 76-77. Mayer finished in a tie for 34th place with a score of 77-79. Hegge played well on Monday—his score of 75 tied with Shuman for the Crimson’s lowest round of the tournament—but he fell back...