Word: acidly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...representative of the Agassiz Committee on the Impacts of Development (ACID), a neighborhood activist group, praised Harvard’s recent efforts to involve the community and encouraged residents to approach the discussions with HLS with an open mind...
...ACID is currently engaged in a “tough but productive series of conversations with Harvard,” member William Bloomstein said...
...ACID members, too, said they wanted input on development projects...
...Life Report (Viking; 309 pages), a comic, caustic first novel by essayist and National Public Radio regular Meghan Daum, were any less honest, her story could have ended on page 15. But Daum's bittersweet deconstruction of Lucinda's illusions reads like The Bridges of Madison County etched in acid. Lucinda acquires a boyfriend, an apathetic woodsman named Mason Clay, who--while he bears a passing resemblance to Sam Shepard and says "warsh" instead of "wash"--turns out to be both much more and much less than the man of her heartland dreams. Their disastrous romantic negotiations show...
Residents agreed, voting to allow ACID to continue with negotiations, although they expressed concerns about a mouse research facility in their neighborhood...