Word: archness
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...approve whole-heartedly of this Bacchanalian excess and hope that each of the next four days and nights prove wilder than the one before. Nonetheless, it's impossible to wade through all this raucous merriment without sensing tension when well-wishers turn sullen and mutter under their breath as arch-enemies pass by, or when two friends stand aloof because one is moving to New York and the other to Sydney...
...long before our Commencement, as I stood in the Lowell House bell tower and watched tear gas canisters arch above Mt. Auburn Street during the Kent State/Cambodia riots, I could only think of those times as the antebellum Harvard," he wrote...
...younger American painters, and been hailed as the man who set painting in the '80s free--as if it had been languishing in bondage before!--by reviving, once more, the spirit of Dada that breathed through such movements as the Fluxus group in the '60s. He's the arch-trickster, mocking all art styles, sending up the dreaded Canon. (The fact that no work of art by a famous artist these days can safely be considered really and truly outside the Canon seems not to have dawned on those inside the Museum of Modern Art.) His strategy, according to MOMA...
Should he have been? Even a Kosovo hawk like John McCain complained that "most of the pork spending in this bill comes straight out of the Social Security trust fund," and arch-conservative Phil Gramm moaned that GOPers "say we want to lock up the money from Social Security, and then we sit idly by and watch it be spent." But TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan says that Clinton asked for the money for the troops, and there's no way he was going to be seen sending this check back. "He probably doesn't consider this version...
Gender and race relations. President Clinton's national dialogue on race was conducted here with some success, and incidents of racial, ethnic and sexual harassment have been increasingly rare; the arch-conservative magazine Peninsula has also thankfully disappeared. The impact of the demise of Radcliffe College remains to be seen, but Harvard's efforts to step up its commitment to women's issues is promising. Verdict: Better to even...