Word: agee
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...essay on Mohandas Gandhi, George Orwell declared that saints must be presumed guilty until proved innocent. The earthly life of Thomas More, saint though he be, makes such presumption easy. More was a consummate political insider, upwardly mobile in a Machiavellian age and seemingly indispensable at the volatile court of England's tyrannical Henry VIII. With crafty language and veiled speech, he was master of the legalistic surmise and the affidavit of denial. He was the pre-eminent lawyer of the realm. At the same time, More could spit scatology with the foulest pamphleteers in that feverish dawn...
...says. "I'm looking around the theater and thinking, 'Everybody's sitting in this big room having a really good time, and that little girl onstage is making that possible.'" The problem is that kids who get excited about shows like Annie soon reach the awkward age: too old for Simba and too young for earnest dramas about bad marriages, or revivals of Broadway musicals that your parents used to go to. Still...
...from Sinai [the moment of revelation], the more you are diminished." Bak varies the notion of family lineage in From Generation to Generation through a series. An elder from the village of Vilna, gazes upon versions of himself, his body decreasing in size, each time preserving his old age. The ancestors bless their descendents but stare toward the earth, without joy or life. It is as if these men have always been old, but one cannot tell which man is the oldest. Each generation, now with the knowledge of the atrocities of the Holocaust, will continue to age with experience...
After questioning from the police, the alleged intruder said that he was looking for a girl named Alexa. He did not know her last name, her age or her phone number...
WISHR offers a place of support for women scientists on campus by presenting various panels, hosting dinners and supporting discussions with women in the field. Additionally, WISHR offers inspiration to young girls interested in science by working with Cambridge school age children...