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...father, Mr. L.M. Hallacher, was born in the city of Ross, County Cork, Ireland, and is now a sheet-metal worker in Eau Claire." By contrast, one of the highest-scoring essays conveys the same type of information but in a dramatically different way: "My father is an all-around man of trades, but his principal occupation is carpentry, which trade he had already begun before his marriage with my mother...
...publisher, while bemoaning the current lack of serious and talented writers in the “man of letters” category, admitted, “There are brilliant writers—Louis Menand is perhaps the all-around best.” A staff writer at The New Yorker and Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Menand’s Metaphysical Club is a triumph of intelligent writing. He addresses a set of divinely elegant themes that speak to the very essence of what so many of us either take...
Dartmouth junior outfielder Cherie Comeau leads the Big Green offensively coming into Saturday. She had an impressive all-around batting performance last weekend, hitting .416 while contributing a walk, a double, a triple, two sacrifices, and six RBI, including the game-winner in the first contest against Brown. Comeau also scored two runs, including the game-winner in the Big Green's second match-up against the Bears...
Just a day after suffering one of its most heartbreaking losses of the season, the Harvard baseball team rebounded with perhaps its best all-around effort of the year...
...performance was successful on many levels, particularly principal flute Jacques Zoon’s solo in the Pan-Syrinx pantomime. Yes, he hit all the notes, but his gestures and timing were right on as well, resulting in an all-around impeccable delivery. Other members of the woodwind section played their most difficult and taxing parts brilliantly. The strings, however, were not at their strongest, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus sang their wordless parts too directly and without the distance sometimes required in this music. Haitink conducted effortlessly, and took the final “Danse Generale?...