Word: abounding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other urban myths abound. Nicholas Gordon '95, who is based in Durban on the coast, told me of a woman at a public meeting who asked whether the ANC would really take over her house after the elections. Apparently, a man had knocked at her door, asked for a glass of water, and returned it with a R2 coin at the bottom "as down payment for your house...
Purists in physics departments cringe these days, as more of the faithful leave the scientific fold. Stories of rocket scientists making a name for themselves at Salmon Brothers and Goldman Sachs abound...
...fashioned tales, resurrecting issues like passivity vs. action and honesty vs. self-delusion, and relying on such time-honored devices as unreliable narrators, characters who turn out to be angels in disguise, and good old melodrama. Echoes of past masters -- Henry James and John O'Hara, for instance -- abound. What saves the stories from seeming contrived is their natural assurance of voice (the sentences read as if spoken aloud), their steadiness of moral compass and their acuity -- often humorous -- of detail...
...Lampoon openly seeking to proselytize and gain Jester hat converts? "Look, although in one sense the Lampoon is the hotbed of Jester hat ideology, if you want to know the truth, Jester hats are a big practical joke," insists Abound. "There is nothing cool about a Jester hat. I mean, the Jester has gotten a lot of good press, but basically they were a bunch of physically deformed imbeciles. We're going to make money out of it along the way, but the Lampoon is horrified and ashamed at any such movement...
There's a certain element of play-fulness and fun to it, no matter how gruelling or vicious the game. You aren't likely to see the players beating each other up in this sport. Nor is shee audience likely to be particularly bloodthirsty Superstar players don't abound, either...