Word: aptness
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...present Mere Christianity to prospective converts or joyfully pass copies to those who are born again, along with a Gospel of John. Says Christian author Nancy Guthrie, whose new devotional The One Year Book of Hope (Tyndale) opens with a Lewis quote: "I used it because the sentiment was apt, but also because he's almost an inarguable voice" in her community...
Isaacson writes that Gates possesses "an awesome and at times frightening blend of brilliance, drive, competitiveness and personal intensity." That is also a pretty apt description of Walter. Like Gates, Isaacson attended Harvard, where he studied computing while majoring in history and literature. Unlike Gates, he graduated (in 1974) and then went to Oxford for two years as a Rhodes scholar. While in England he worked at London's Sunday Times, before returning to his native New Orleans to work as a reporter at the New Orleans States-Item. While there he also bought his first personal computer, a Kaypro...
...Imagine. UC President Matthew J. Glazer ‘06 is Aragorn; Felipe’s is Anduril. And we hungry Harvardians are the Ghost Army at his back. Next stop: Harvard University Dining Services to rape, pillage, and secure unlimited Congo bars. Tolkien and joking aside, the most apt comparison with Monday’s Lamont party doesn’t invoke Middle Earth. Rather, Lamont’s orgy of opulent consumption should be contrasted with the contemporaneous atmosphere at the new Quad Library. While Lamont was, at least for a few minutes, full of food, light...
...asked whether the U.S. can win the war in Iraq, but a more apt question would be, "Since the U.S. is losing the war, what can it do?" The White House naively assumes that all countries are fertile ground for democracy. The layers of tribal fabric that make up Iraq are too complex for Western leaders to handle. Once American troops leave?as they eventually must?the only alternative to a tribal war in Iraq would be the installation of a strongman, a surrogate for Saddam Hussein on a short leash. With an autocratic leader in place, in six months...
...sugar, too little spice ... [The film's] gem?tlich heart tugs make a Lehar operetta seem grimly realistic by comparison. Viewers who want a movie to swell around them in big, warm blobs will find Sound of Music easy to take. Sterner types may resist at the outset but are apt to loosen up after a buoyant, heels-in-the-air song or two by Julie Andrews. Seconding her perky triumph as Mary Poppins, Julie turns every number into a bell ringer and gives the comedy its zestiest scene when she punctures her employer's vincible mettle with a few white...