Word: afar
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With Crimson editors scattered across the globe this summer, we will be not be publishing our regular slate of editorials. Instead, we have invited editors to submit summer postcards from afar. We hope they will give you a flavor of the wide range of the jobs, internships, activities, and experiences that characterize Crimson editors’ summers, while at the same time providing a glimpse of the issues and opinions that are moving and animating our staff in every corner of the world...
...takes a gorgeous bright Sunday like this one to remind movie people visiting from afar that Cannes has a life outside the Film Festival. It is a resort town of 70,000 people, most of whom live nowhere near the beach. But on lovely weekends, the locals, many of them as beautiful as movie stars, come down from the hills for a family stroll on the seaside Croisette. They pack the public beaches to get an early start on their suntans. And as a splendid May afternoon wanes and time nears for the Film Festival's first evening show...
...conclusion is disappointing because Vargas Llosa—who carries a Spanish passport and resides in northern California—designs a utopian master plan from afar, instead of clearly delineating the practical steps toward progress that Latin America so desperately needs. The theoretical nature of his proposals implies a lack of urgency that contrasts sharply with the book’s bleak depiction of the continent’s health...
...stories abounded about Tony's strange disappearances, his attempts to hide himself (once in a school laundry chute), his bursts of exhibitionism. Although he had left numerous prep schools, he and his mother decided he was ready, with brief cramming, to enroll at Oxford. His father looked on from afar with contempt. Brooks had repeatedly tried to leave his wife; she responded by attempting suicide four tunes, the last when he departed with a girl a generation younger who came into their home as Tony's steady date...
...base. In the region there were two rivers, the Guali and the La-gunilla . . . both were flooded with melted snow. It didn't really seem like water, but masses of ash and soil, with such a pestilent odor of sulfur that it couldn't be tolerated even from afar...