Word: absently
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...When Humbert Humbert sadly apostrophized his absent inamorata by crying, "Oh my Lolita, I have only words to play with!", he was selling words short. Vladimir Nabokov, the verboleptic who dreamed up Humbert, surely knew this, as do his readers: Lolita is the wordplay lover's favorite novel. Numbers have their power; they can be squared, cubed, extended to infinity. But they can't match the universe of ideas and feelings that come into being when letters collide. Words create worlds...
...truly great farce, is innocently precipitated by the always helpful Rafi. He's given a kitchen task - decanting and defrosting a huge block of frozen soup. Somehow it slips out of his hands and sails out a window, where it lands on a passerby who may be the absent father and may be dead as a result of the accident. Neither his identity nor his fate can at first be fully determined, for by the time the ambulance arrives, the victim has disappeared. In any case, the family is less concerned with his possible demise than it is with...
...Luskin had just received a fax from Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel in the case, saying that he was formally notifying Luskin that absent any unexpected developments, he does not anticipate seeking any criminal charges against Rove...
...Sanders Theater instead of the customary Faculty Room. In April, by contrast, when the first measures of the three-year-old curricular review were finally being brought to the floor, the Faculty could barely muster the quorum it needed to take votes on the legislation. (At one meeting, some absent professors had to be called to rush to the Faculty Room so that the necessary quorum could be attained.) Kirby maintains that students are the focus of this University, but his words sound hollow when so many professors are willing to roast a president who is unequivocally dedicated to undergraduate...
...might its contract. Officials have tried to relax some rules to open the bidding process to more competitors. For example, companies can now provide representative samples of their products instead of actual currency paper. But absent legislative action, the Treasury is limited in what...