Word: abuzz
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...Heart Association in Orlando, Fla., thousands of doctors, scientists and pharmaceutical-company reps knew that they would be hearing about the very latest research into the causes of heart disease and the potential treatments. What they probably didn't suspect was that the meeting rooms and hallways would be abuzz with news that broke before the gathering even began--news that may signal an entirely new approach to fighting the nation's leading cause of death...
When he was setting the Parisian music world abuzz with his precocious piano playing in the 1840s, the young Camille Saint-Saens was taken to play for the great Hector Berlioz. Saint-Saens, with an aplomb beyond his years, dashed off a dazzling keyboard display. "All he lacks," announced Berlioz, "is inexperience...
...screening room at the Loews Harvard Square movie theater was abuzz last weekend with laughter, cheers, applause and tears—and the weekly Saturday night screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show had nothing to do with...
Harvard has been abuzz recently with talk of athletic renovations. The Crimson reported on Oct. 27 that administrators were actively considering putting a bubble over Harvard Stadium to create a dynamic new facility that could be used year-round, by a number of varsity teams, and not just by football players on six Saturdays per year. Whether you like it or loathe it——and the opinions of undergraduates and alumni seem pretty divided—covering the stadium would be a bold move...
While DeBergalis’s ability to get out the student vote set Cambridge political pundits abuzz, the election results also showed another, subtler shift in city politics—the rise of neighborhood activists who made their names sitting on committees and fighting developers...