Word: adds
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...Chinese use the term little dog, and the Germans, little treasure. Littleness is the key to many of these expressions. For some reason the tendency in the language of love is to make less of the object of one's affections; it is quite common in most languages to add a diminutive suffix to a name (in Russian, ya, in Greek, oula, in Irish, een) so as to express fond feelings. Psychologists might suggest that the purpose of these diminutions is to assert the superiority of lover to loved one ("my pet"), but the effect diminishes all parties. We have...
...pros. Roger Angell has described a pitcher standing on a "hill like (a) sunstruck archaeologist at Knossos." John Updike, Ring Lardner, Philip Roth, Mark Harris, Robert Coover and other "serious" writers have regarded baseball as a metaphor for the human predicament. What can a puffing 56- year-old add to the overloaded shelf of belles lettres on the summer game...
...lottery, as measured by the Undergraduate Council poll, is only one element in the debate over assignment of Houses. It will not decide the fundamental issue--the telos of the Harvard undergraduate housing system. I believe this system should serve all three ends: to fairly distribute House assignments, to add to our educational experience, and to promote general happiness. To what extent each goal is to be promoted should be decided in informed debate. It might clear up some of the confused arguments being put forward if we could all recognize the central issue, and then establish our priorities...
...that point, 5-3, you pop one in, a lucky break, it's 5-4 and the pressure's really on them," Fusco will add. "If you get close at the end like that the pressure switches...
...think this will add to what we're doing in Physics I, but this is more specialized," MacKay said. "I've never taken a course like this before...