Word: age-old
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...last year's Commencement exercises, President Neil L. Rudenstine slowly intoned the traditional, age-old sentences that granted degrees to Kennedy School of Government graduates. It was a big moment--an official confirmation of the students' work, a recognition of their achievement...
...folks at Jurassic Park are banking that all their expertise will evoke those age-old giggles and screams -- that scientific fact will be alchemized into sublime fakery...
...thunder of Serb artillery, its cannon and mortars trained on the Muslim town of Srebrenica, its shells primed for airbursts, which would cause maximum carnage. After the deadliest barrage last week, the shattered bodies of the dead, including 15 children, lay in mute testimony to the world's age-old ability to turn its face away from the suffering and subjugation of others...
Forget the word circus; it conjures up nothing more magical than slapstick and animal odors. The grand, ethereal Cirque du Soleil is really primal theater -- an age-old blend of music and motion. The weirdly soothing, polylingual background score, which could be elevator music at a harmonious U.N., rolls out a verdant carpet of sound for all the pretty beasts to strut on. At every moment, in every corner of the Cirque world, stagecraft approaches genial witchcraft. It's an out-of-Broadway experience...
Harvard spending so much money on athletics makes about as much sense as Japan spending a major portion of its federal budget on defense. Both expenditures are contrary to age-old ideologies. If Harvard wants to stay true to the Ivy League concept, it should cut out recruiting and coaching patterns that are reminiscent of places like Nebraska and Florida State. The money saved could be much better spent on financial aid programs, faculty salaries, and deficit reduction...